This is the published version of the lecture I gave at an architecture conference at the University of Texas at Austin in October 2016.

Bruno Latour describes his Politics of Nature as work of political ecology. Its subtitle, "How to Bring the Sciences Into Democracy," suggests a specific and limited topic, albeit an interesting one. Yet what this book ...

This study confirms previous literature discoveries that perceived credibility of medium, source and message have a direct influence on the perceived credibility of online political news. Each credibility factor is examined ...

This thesis analyzes the real estate sector in Egypt. The thesis attempts to evaluate determinants of housing investment in light of the recent economic shocks within the Egyptian economy. This analysis is done using the ...

Unlike other Egypt’s provinces, terrorism in the Egypt’s North Sinai seems as sustained terror with a wide base of extremist militant groups. The main objective of this study is to answer the question of “why has terrorism ...

While this study on the historiography of the French occupation in not fully inclusive, it highlights the complexity and changing views on events in Egypt’s past and how these views were influence by political and social ...

This study is manly introducing a modified integrating method which is much suitable for smart grids. In smart grid the integration between the outputs of the renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, wind energy and ...

Elsewhere I have called for an object-oriented philosophy, a project inspired by the phenomenological tradition. In Husserl, we have intentional objects: apples or mailboxes that form integral units for perception even ...

The Rare Books and Special Collections Library of the American University in Cairo has a long tradition of embracing collaborative partnerships, openness, and accessibility to create collections using Archives 2.0 principles ...