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Ali Abdel Aal • 7 min read

‘The hall is not with you’: Speaker Abdel Aal battles internal opposition on multiple fronts

Amina Hussein and Rana Mamdouh | Egypt’s domineering speaker of parliament is facing stiff internal opposition on multiple fronts

11 July 2019

housing • 16 min read

An interview with UN special rapporteur Leilani Farha on Egypt’s approach to housing

Mostafa Mohie | Mada Masr sits down with UN special rapporteur on the right to adequate housing, Leilani Farha

12 October 2018

Asmarat • 21 min read

Asmarat: The state’s model housing for former ‘slum’ residents

Mostafa Mohie | The housing project doesn't feel like home to residents relocated from self-built housing areas

18 June 2018

privatization • 9 min read

What official statements on utility privatization are not saying

Waad Ahmed | Are Egypt's public utilities being privatized, despite government claims to the contrary?

8 December 2016

affordable housing • 9 min read

After weathering the revolution, Egypt’s real estate sector slows

Shahd Essam | For generations, Egyptians have prized real estate as the country’s safest and most desirable investment.

28 October 2015

forced evictions • 10 min read

The Maspero Triangle: Necessary demolition or forced eviction?

Mostafa Mohie | Residents of the Maspero Triangle could not imagine the impact the attack on the Italian Consulate on

28 July 2015

affordable housing • 15 min read

Egypt’s steep learning curve in national housing projects

Isabel Esterman | A week ago, at least one child was killed when security forces used explosives to demolish apartment

15 April 2014

agriculture • 6 min read

Murderers, thieves and conmen: The Maadi land controversy

Ali Abdel Mohsen | “Everything you see in front of you,” mutters Hajj Mohamed Abdel Raouf as he moves his finger across

10 April 2014

Ezbet al-Nakhl • 15 min read

Evicted and nowhere to go

Heba Afify | Four days after security forces came in with bulldozers and demolished Nadia Abdel Kader’s house and

26 February 2014

Opinion

Yahia Shawkat

How rent could solve the housing problem

In a previous article I pointed out four main challenges for the housing minister in providing adequate

19 May 2014

Mohamed Gad

Arabtec project not on the house

Millions of Egyptians dream of affordable houses, and so does Arabtec. The United Arab Emitates-based

27 March 2014

News

housing • 6 min read

Government campaign to demolish informal buildings sparks anger

10 September 2020

Duweiqa • 5 min read

UN rights envoys condemn Egypt after ‘pattern of reprisals’

5 December 2018

affordable housing • 5 min read

Formal housing increasingly inaccessible as rent control phased out: Built Environment Observatory

22 February 2018

CAPMAS • 1 min read

Infographic: Facts and figures from CAPMAS’ 2017 census

1 October 2017

housing • 2 min read

Official: Egypt will have 90 million residents by next week

1 December 2015

commercial property • 2 min read

Govt. issues legal amendment to property taxes

2 June 2014

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