Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Yasser Elsheshtawy

Yasser Elsheshtawy is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, DC and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia GSAPP where he teaches a course on housing in the Arab world.

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"The Dubai of..."

Over the last several decades, and particularly after upheavals in Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria, much of the urban center of gravity of the Middle East has shifted to the Gulf. To understand this trend and its consequences, MERIP editorial committee member Jillian Schwedler interviewed Yasser Elsh

Yasser Elsheshtawy • 16 min read