Urban Infrastructures
This country is building itself a capital-city from scratch.
What is Egypt?
This Israeli city boasts one of the most expensive urban real estate in the world.
What is Tel Aviv?
This country is where the Arab Spring was born.
What is Tunisia?
What is cat?
This concept refers to the various politics of death and dying.
What is necropolitics?
This city is planning to make itself an island.
What is Istanbul?
Many Mizrahi Jews immigrating to Israel were housed in these projects, built from scratch in the desert.
What are Development Towns?
Both iterations of the Egyptian Arab Spring was marked by the occupation of this public space.
What is Tahrir Square?
This 2013 contentious event was the Turkish equivalent of the Arab Spring in Istanbul.
What is Gezi (Park Uprising)?
This concept refers to the total destruction of the urban space as a technology of war.
What is urbicide?
The contentious light rail project in this city has been criticized as "infrastructural violence."
What is Jerusalem?
This refers to the community of Ethiopian Jews.
What is Beta Israel?
This sad animal was a graffiti icon in contentious Cairo.
What is (sad) panda?"
This concept refers to the Turkish officials' appropriation of the popularity of Istanbul's cats.
What is cat-washing?
This concept, used as a verb, refers to the unfixing of boundaries and subverting of norms.
What is queer(ing)?
This city is currently experiencing a collapse of its electricity grid.
What is Beirut?
This Israeli mixed-city is the site of Palestinian rave parties.
What is Haifa?
In these two countries, the Arab Spring devolved into full scale civil war.
What are Syria and Libya?
This concept marks the simultaneous vulnerability and ambiguity of the legal status of the Syrian refugees in Istanbul.
What is precarity?
This concept refers to a former refugee camp that has become an organic and established part of the urban space.
What is campscape?