DR Sarah El-Kazaz's Outputs (6)

Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (2023)
Book
El-Kazaz, S. (2023). E. Ault (Ed.), Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478027386

In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the... Read More about Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul.

Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics (2022)
Book Chapter
El-Kazaz, S., Clark, J., Harb, M., & Salman, L. (2022). Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics. In M. Lynch, J. Schwedler, & S. Yom (Eds.), The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings (256-280). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197640043.003.0011

The Arab uprisings of 2011–12 brought into stark relief the fact that neither states nor societies in the Middle East were monolithic units. Instead, the region shows remarkable variation in terms of administration, governance, and development at the... Read More about Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics.

Building "Community" and Markets in Contemporary Cairo (2018)
Journal Article
El-Kazaz, S. (in press). Building "Community" and Markets in Contemporary Cairo. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 60(2), 476-505. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417518000129

Thinking in Four Dimensions: New Directions in Spatial Analysis of the Middle East (2017)
Journal Article
El-Kazaz, S. (in press). Thinking in Four Dimensions: New Directions in Spatial Analysis of the Middle East. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 49(3), 535-545. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743817000423

The study of the Middle East is experiencing an explosion in the dimensions through which scholars study space. The five new books reviewed in this essay stand out for pushing the boundaries of how we conceptualize the production of space and mobiliz... Read More about Thinking in Four Dimensions: New Directions in Spatial Analysis of the Middle East.

The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City (2017)
Other
El-Kazaz, S., Mazur, K., Reynolds, N., Crane, S., & Menoret, P. (2017). The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City. Hoboken, NJ

This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de-exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a gene... Read More about The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City.

Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City (2017)
Journal Article
El-Kazaz, S., & Mazur, K. (2017). Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City. City & Society, 29(1), 148-161. https://doi.org/10.1111/ciso.12116

This special section of City and Society is dedicated to de‐exceptionalizing the study of Middle Eastern cities. The introduction argues that the study of Middle Eastern cities has been constrained in its analytical and methodological focus by a gene... Read More about Introduction to Special Section: The Un-Exceptional Middle Eastern City.