Omnia Khalil

Omnia Khalil is a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), anthropology program, and adjunct lecturer at Hunter College, CUNY. She is a cofounder of 10 Tooba | Applied Research in the Built Environment in Egypt. She is an engaged scholar and urban anthropologist and has over 10 years’ experience in social mapping and participatory community urban action planning.

Articles by: Omnia Khalil

مثلث ماسبيرو مِن المُشاركة المجتمعية إلى الإخلاء القسري

في صباح أحد أيّام شهر رمضان في سبتمبر 2008، انهارت كتلة صخرية ضخمة مِن أعلى جبل المقطم على منطقة الدويقة في القاهرة.

From Community Participation to Forced Eviction in the Maspero Triangle

While Egyptian media portray the Maspero Triangle development process as participatory, interviews show the reality: over the past decade it has become more of a forced eviction with the aim to gentrify...