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.