Yahia Shawkat is the co-founder and research coordinator of the 10 Tooba research studio, Cairo. There he edits its Built Environment Observatory, a web portal investigating the commodification of land and housing, as well as proposing equitable housing policies and strategies. Yahia authored Egypt’s Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space (AUC Press, 2020), and co-edited Nashtari kul shay’ (We Buy Everything), (Dar al-Maraya, 2022).