Extending the Material Biography of Byblos through Understanding Ancient Common Commodity Spaces and Human Artifacts

The New Administrative Capital, An investigation into the triggers of the construction of new capital cities in Egypt and the evolution of the discourse around their development: The Construction and Discourse of New Capital Cities in Egypt

The New Administrative Capital of Egypt is a city from scratch located in the desert, 60 km east from Cairo, set in motion in 2015 and already visible on site. Egypt’s government promotes the new capital as the key to reducing Cairo’s urban load due its explosive overpopulation. The main strategy is to relocate the government buildings from...

Tahrir Square: The Pulse of Egyptian Identity: By Examining Egypt In 1900s As A French Post-colonial Nation, to what extent did Tahrir square become a symbol of Egyptian Identity

“Squares, boulevards, Favelas, refugee camps - have served throughout history as the setting for political protest and revolt.”(Weizman et al., 2015). These protests play a vital role in identifying what societal and political views a population uphold. Architecture is usually a representation of societal views, incidents and political...

A rainfall threshold-based approach to early warnings in urban data-scarce regions: A case study of pluvial flooding in Alexandria, Egypt

Rapidly expanding cities in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region are at risk of flooding due to heavy rainfall, insufficient drainage capacity, a lack of preparedness and insufficient data to conduct required studies. A low regret Early Warning Systems (EWS) using rainfall thresholds is proposed as a cost-effective short-term...

Potential Economies using big data to analyse urban competitiveness of new urban communities: a case study on socio-economic indicators in Egypt

Orthodox economic models often linked the size of cities to their economies. However, this changed through the last quarter of the 20th century; cities grew bigger, side by side to unemployment, inflation and falling wages and productivity (Davis, 2006). In Egypt, urban migration was considered the root of the city’s density. In the seventies,...

Mapping and quantifying the human-environment interactions in middle Egypt using machine learning and satellite data fusion techniques

Population growth in rural areas of Egypt is rapidly transforming the landscape. New cities are appearing in desert areas while existing cities and villages within the Nile floodplain are growing and pushing agricultural areas into the desert. To enable control and planning of the urban transformation, these rapid changes need to be mapped...

Toward achieving sustainable management of municipal wastewater sludge in Egypt: The current status and future prospective

Over the past 4 decades, the increasing amounts of excess sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) represent a challenge toward achieving the sustainability of the drinking water and sanitation sector in Egypt, resulting in a serious environmental pollution due to the uncontrolled use of non-stabilized sludge. Here, we report a...

Tracing the provenance of unfired ancient Egyptian clay figurines from Saqqara through non-destructive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry

A collection of Prime Cultural Heritage artefacts consisting of Egyptian late Middle Kingdom figurines (c. 1850–1700 BCE), made of unfired clay and covered in inscriptions, is kept at the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) in Brussels, Belgium. Several of these hieratic inscriptions curse enemies of the Egyptian state, including...

Power to the People: Towards a Suitable Restructuring Modality for Egypt's Electricity Sector Reforms

Market-oriented electricity sector reforms have spread across the world in the last decades, with the aim to increase efficiency and stimulate investments. In many cases the outcomes of these reforms did not met up with expectations in terms of among others pricing, social welfare and efficiency. An often mentioned reason for these undesired...

SoundSpaces: A Bridge for Cairo

Mapping spatio-acoustics in Cairo, Egypt; and the design of a bridge based on the findings of the research.

Water Demand Management. Approaches, Experiences and Application to Egypt

Pyramides en moskeeën: Architectuur in Egypte

Ons verhaal kan gezien worden als aanvulling op deze tentoonstelling over religieuze farao nische bouwkunst enerzijds en islamitische architectuur in Cairo anderzijds. Het bijzondere van het land Egypte is, dat twee totaal verschillende culturen naast elkaar staan, terwijl ze elkaar niet of nauwelijks beinvloed hebben. Hiernaast stellen we de...