On this episode of SEPADPod Simon speaks with Deep Shariff Sharp. Been is an urban geographer whose research focuses on the political economy of urbanization in the “Middle East”. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).He is the co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Urban Research: 2016) and Open Gaza (University in Cairo Press: In Print). His most recent journal article “Difference as practice: Diffracting geography and the area studies turn” was published in Progress in Human Geography. You can find him at www.deensharp.com

On this episode, Simon and Deen talk about the importance of geography, space, urban politics, protest Gaza, and so much more.

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