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Hiba Bou Akar
Columbia University
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Primary Phone: (510) 285-7323
413 Avery Hall
Columbia University
New York NY 10027
United States
Discipline
Architecture & Urban Planning
Sub Areas
Urban Studies
Ethnography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD | 2012 | City and Regional Planning | University of California, Berkeley
MA | 2005 | Urban Studies and Planning | MIT
BA | 2000 | Architecture and Design | American University of Beirut
Abstracts
Constructing “Sectarianism”: Urban Planning, Religious-Political Organizations, and the Spatial Production of Sectarian Difference in Beirut, Lebanon The Doubleness of Beirut’s Ruins: Between a Past War and Wars Yet to Come On the Urbanization of Violence: Contested Access to Housing for Syrian Refugees in a Beirut Periphery On the Politics of Housing Provision and Urban Planning The Women's Making of a Lebanese Revolution