Professor Wael Fahmi
I was trained as an architect at Cairo University and received my PhD in Planning and Landscape from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom). I teach Architecture Design and Urban Conservation of Historic Districts as a Professor at the Architecture Department- Helwan University in Cairo. As a visiting academic at the University of Manchester, I have been conducting joint research on Greater Cairo’s urban growth problems and housing crisis (published in Cities ). Further research focuses on the rehabilitation of historic Cairo (published in Habitat International and International Development Planning Review), the cemetery informal settlements (published in journal Arab World Geographer), and garbage collectors community (Environment and Urbanization and Habitat International). Recent publications include street movements within Cairo’s public spaces (Environment and Urbanization) and Cairo's 19th century and early 20th century contested European Quarter and architectural heritage (International Development Planning Review). I have published a book on the Nubian resettlement in Egypt, and four manuscripts (on the Zabaleen garbage collectors, Bloggers' street movement, Moscow and Berlin post socialist public spaces and deconstruction of architectural representation). I co-authored with Keith Sutton two manuscripts on Cairo's historic quarter and Greater Cairo Region gated communities.
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