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.
Urban Development Demolitions et reconstructions Demolitions of unregulated neighborhoods continue in the capital, including Ezbet Abu Qarn in Old Cairo where 15 buildings were demolished, and Mansheyyat Nasr where 185 buildings were destroyed. At the same time, alternative housing is being built in October Garden City for the inhabitants of Warraq Island. The Ministry of…
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…
Urban Development Development of the city center The Higher Council for Urban Planning, composed of the Ministers of Defense, Culture, Tourism, Local Development, Environment and Planning, decided to redevelop several areas of the city center: the Corniche on the Nile in Shubra and Maadi, Ramses Square, and Dar al-Salam. Some people are concerned that this…
Urban Ecologies of the Lower Nile Valley June 11-12-13, 2023, Cairo A conference organized by the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) and convened by Noura Wahby (AUC) and Pascal Menoret (CEDEJ) with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, the French Institute in Egypt (IFE),…
Dust and the City By Aya Nassar BA Postdoctoral Fellow, Warwick University Discussant: Jerry C. Zee, Princeton University February 28, 2023 4pm-6pm at the CEDEJ Abstract: How can dust be instructive of creative politics and knowledges? This seminar is based on a chapter I am writing that aims to explore Cairo as a fragmentary archive of…
Book launch: Middle Eastern Cities In A Time of Climate Crisis February 27, 2023 at Consoleya 6pm – 9pm 5 El-Fadl, Bab Al Louq, Abdeen, Cairo The Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) will launch the book Middle Eastern Cities in a Time of Climate Crisis, published…
“Informal Settlements: Climate Champions, Urban Recyclers, and Waste Managers” Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 6:00 p.m. (Cairo time), at the French Institute of Egypt Abstract Informal settlements in megacities have become home to millions of informal recyclers. The connection between public health, clean cities and the places where these people live have become inextricably intertwined.…
The SPACEPOL workshop « Space And Politics: Capital Cities As Instruments Of Political Struggle And Power » which will be held on the 10th of January, 2023 at the CEDEJ. Please find here the program and the Zoom link invitation. Visit the website for more information about the SPACEPOL project.
The Center for Economic, Legal, and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) was created in 1968 thanks to an agreement between France and Egypt. The center is the heir of the French School of Law in Cairo (1890-1956), whose library it partly preserved. CEDEJ is a multidisciplinary research center working on contemporary Egypt from within the…