Routledge Handbook on Middle East Cities

Haim Yacobi is a Professor of Development Planning at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London. In 1999 he formulated the idea of establishing "Bimkom – Planners for Planning Rights" and co-founded this NGO that deals with human rights and planning in Israel/Palestine. His research interest in relation to urban space are social justice, urban health, migration, and colonial planning. His latest books are Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity (2011 with Erez Tzfadia) and Israel and Africa: A Genealogy of Moral Geography (2016). Mansour Nasasra is a lecturer in Middle East politics and international relations at the Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He was a research fellow at the Council for British Research in the Levant and has been a recipient of British Academy grants. Nasasra is the author of The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistance (2017). He is also co-editor of The Naqab Bedouin and Colonialism: New Perspectives (2015).

1. Introduction: cities in the Middle East: beyond "Middle Easternism" Haim Yacobi and Mansour Nasasra 2. In the eyes of some Britons: Aleppo, a cosmpolitan city Mohammad Sakhnini 3. The making of Tehran: the incremental encroachment of modernity M. Reza Shirazi and Somaiyeh Falahat 4. Dotting urban spaces: Jewish survival politics in current Casablanca André Levy 5. Queer urban movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: a comparative discussion Chen Misgav And Gilly Hartal 6. The home in The Middle Eastern city: a contact zone of contradictory memories and belonging in Jaffa Tovi Fenster 7.Gaza’s historical cycles of prosperity and sestruction: Is the present an aberration? Yasmeen El Khoudary 8. Erasing memories of Palestine in settler-colonial urban space: the case of Haifa Yara Hawari 9. Beersheba and the dynamics of a Palestinian city: Bedouin networks with Gaza, Jerusalem and Istanbul Mansour Nasasra 10. Understanding the materiality of suspicion: affective politics in MENA cities Mark Levine and Maria Frederika Malmström 11. Borders, boundaries and frontiers: on Jerusalem’s present geopolitics Haim Yacobi 12. "A Demarcation in the Hearts": everyday urban frontiers in Beirut Sara Fregonese 13. Tourism and urbanism in Iran: top-down and ad hoc developments in the Caspian region Pamela Karimi 14. The politics of building in post-Revolution Tehran Azadeh Meshayekhi 15. Revisiting Sana’a’s urban planning and development challenges Wafa Al-Daily 16. Marrakesh: a fresh perspective – moving from a form-based planning to a value-based approach Iqbal Khaiy 17. Securitisation of urban electricity supply: a political ecology perspective on the cases of Jordan and Lebanon Eric Verdeil 18. The rise of a Saharan city: urban development, tribal settlement, and political unrest in Laâyoune Tara F. Deubel and Aomar Boum 19. Rethinking "building resilience": conflict and the Middle East city Bruce Stanley 20. Erasing palimpsest city: boom, bust and urbicide in Turkey Kerem Öktem 21. Hebron: challenging the urbicide Marion Lecoquierre 22. The impact of internal displacement in the Kurdistan region of Iraq; internally displaced people, interethnic relations and social cohesion in Duhok Alex Munoz and Kelsey Shanks 23. Can integration offer Iraqi refugees in Damascus a durable solution? Salam Arabi Katbi 24. Growth, aspiration, and consolidation in Ramallah Kareem Rabie 25. Political economy of tourism development in The Gulf: the cases of Muscat and Doha Angeline Turner