Deen Sharp

Deen Sharp is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science in Geography and Environment. He was formerly a fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Urban Research, 2016) and Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope (American University in Cairo Press, 2021). He is the co-editor of a third book Reconstruction as Violence: The Case of...See more

Deen Sharp is a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science in Geography and Environment. He was formerly a fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the co-editor of Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Urban Research, 2016) and Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope (American University in Cairo Press, 2021). He is the co-editor of a third book Reconstruction as Violence: The Case of Syria (American University in Cairo Press, Forthcoming). He has written for a number of publications, including, Jadaliyya , Portal 9 , MERIP , Arab Studies Journal and the Guardian . He has worked for several UN agencies, including UNDP and UN-Habitat, governments and international NGOs. See less