Press Review City, Mobility, Environment – April 2023

Urban Development Non-regulatory neighborhoods The State Land Recovery Committee has announced the 21st round of demolitions across the country to address the problem of informal settlements. It also announced an intensification of the controls on unregistered constructions. Members of parliament point out that the action of the State on this matter has seen an unprecedented…

[Conference] Urban Ecologies of the Lower Nile Valley | June 12-13, 2023

 [Conference] Urban Ecologies of the Lower Nile Valley June 12-13, 2023 ————————— A conference organized by the American University in Cairo and the Center for Economic,Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation and convened by Noura Wahby (AUC) and Pascal Menoret (CEDEJ) with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the French Institute in Egypt . Register…

Midan Mounira Conference: Urban Ecologies in Egypt | June 11, 2023

 محاضرات ميدان المنيرة Urban Ecologies in Egypt الطبيعة الحضرية في مصر June 11,2023 – 11 يونيو At the French Institute in Egypt – في المعهد الفرنسي بمصر المحاضرة مترجمة من الانجليزية إلى اللغة العربية    Storytelling, Poetics, and Urban Political Ecology: An Elemental Geography of the City السرد و فن الشعر والايكولوجيا السياسية الحضرية: الجغرافيا…

ABC:A lesson in History | May 23 at 11am

ABC:A lesson in History  Tuesday 23 May 2023 11 AM – Cairo local time The CEDEJ invites you to a talk by Lara Baladi. Baladi will present her long-term research, Vox Populi (2011–ongoing) an archive and lexicon of iconography of global social movements. Lara Baladi is an Egyptian-Lebanese multi-disciplinary artist, archivist. Since2015, she has been a Lecturer at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology Program.

Séminaire DISTAM-GT3 Cartes en ligne : un outil de science ouverte | 25 mai

Séminaire DISTAM-GT3 Cartes en ligne : un outil de science par Hala Bayoumi Jeudi 25 mai 2023 à 14h00 ( heure française) La cartothèque du CEDEJ (Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales, au Caire, http://cedej-eg.org/) est unique en Égypte avec un fond multi-scalaire de cartes cadastrales, topographiques et géographiques qui couvre toute l’Égypte…

Conférences Midan Mounira: L’invention d’un mobilier égyptien au temps des khédives | 7 mai à 18h00

L’invention d’un mobilier égyptien au temps des khédives : à propos de l’ébéniste Giuseppe Parvis et de quelques autres Mercedes Volait ابتكار أثاث مصري في الحقبة الخديوية: عن صانع الأثاث جيوزيبي بارفيس وآخرين Le dimanche 7 mai 2023 à 18h00 (heure du Caire) à l’IFE Partenaire(s): IFE, IFAO & IDÉO Langue : français avec traduction simultanée…

Roundtable: Hunger for the Desert | 18.04.23, 3-5pm

Hunger for the Desert:  Food, Agri-Capitalism and the Environment in Egypt  Roundtable convened and hosted by CEDEJ (Cairo, Egypt)  18 April 2023, 3-5pm Cairo time Invited speakers Marion Dixon, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Point Park University Yomna El Sharony, PhD Student in Sociology, Cornell University Jeannie Sowers, Professor of Political Sciences and International Affairs, University…