CEDEJ is located at the heart of Africa’s largest city and offers incomparable research opportunities to those interested in mobility, environmental studies, infrastructure, and urban studies in general.
Our research focuses on metropolization and urban changes, specifically on the city’s outskirts, in Cairo’s new extensions, and in the New Administrative Capital. We are interested in “the right to the city” (Henry Lefebvre) at a time of upheavals and fast paced changes in the housing, public service, and transportation sectors.
We also work on the ecological crisis and study cities from the perspectives of their human and non-human denizens. Egypt is a privileged site of ecological and climate observation thanks to the wealth of data that is produced on its territory and the critical mass of research conducted here.
Finally, we study the mobility of people and goods, in order to understand internal, regional, and international migration in a time of wars, regional crises, and economic or environmental upheavals. We study the modalities of migration and the trajectories of migrants in host and transit societies. This research axis, which will play an increasingly important role in the coming years, is based on closer collaboration with CEDEJ Khartoum (https://cedejsudan.hypotheses.org/)  which has been relocated to Cairo since the war in Sudan, and which supports extensive research on migration issues.