June 6, 2023 5:00 PM

The Contours of Housing Financialization in the Arab Middle East

Early Commodification, Late Financialization and the Role of Short-term Rental Platforms in the Housing Market of the Greek Capital City.

Speakers

Thomas Maloutas

Professor of Social Geography, Harokopio University

Dalia Wahdan

Associate Professor of Anthropology, American University of Cairo

Tareq Radi

Ph.D. Candidate in American Studies, New York University

Session Chair and Discussant: Deena Khalil

Manager, MENA Urban Housing Practitioners Hub, Habitat for Humanity International

Event description

Join us throughout June 2023 for a series of online presentations and discussions entitled "Housing Uncertainties, Financial Crisis, and Social Protections".

It features leading scholars and practitioners working towards the right to housing who will explore comparatively questions at the intersection of housing inequalities, forced displacement, and financialization.

The online series concludes with two roundtables probing the possibilities afforded by social protection schemes to respond to the increasingly dire living conditions of today’s urban majorities.

Co-organized by The Beirut Urban Lab (BUL) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), Habitat for Humanity (HfH) through the Lebanon National Programme and the MENA Urban Housing Practitioners Hub (MENA-UHPH),the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).

Series Introduction: Locating the Debate on the Right to Housing

By Mona Fawaz (Professor of Urban Studies and Planning,American University of Beirut)

Introductory Comments - The Empire Strikes Again: Housing and Extractivism

Raquel Rolnik (Professor of Urban Planning, University ofSão Paulo)

Discussant: Mona Fawaz (Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, American University of Beirut)