Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
298 Macon Street
Apt 1
New York
NY
11216
United States
ABOUT
Deen Sharp is a LSE Fellow in Geography and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He was previously a Post-Doctoral Fellow, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Urban Research: 2016) and Open Gaza (AUC Press and Terreform 2021). His most recent article was published in Progress in Human Geography Difference as practice: Diffracting geography and the area studies turn. Previously, he was a freelance journalist and consultant based in Lebanon. His research and writing focus on contemporary geography of the Middle East, urban political economy, war and violence. His current project concerns the corporation and urban space in post-war Beirut. He has written for a number of publications, including, Jadaliyya, Portal 9, the Arab Studies Journal and the Guardian. He has worked for several UN agencies, including UNDP and UN-Habitat, governments and international NGOs.
Discipline
Geography
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Arabic
Banking & Finance
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
History Of Architecture
Modern
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Lebanon
Syria
UAE
Yemen
Specialties
Urban Studies
Protest
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Earth and Environmental Sciences
| Graduate Center, CUNY
MS
| 2006
| International Studies
| SOAS
Abstracts
Constructing Urban Violence
Capitalized Urbanization
