Title Urban Researcher, Co-founder of 10 Tooba

Bio

Yahia Shawkat is a housing policy strategist and co-founder of the 10 Tooba research studio. There he leads its Built Environment Observatory, an open knowledge portal producing equitable housing and spatial policies and advocacy, including on the Informalized Housing Reconciliation Law, and the investigative mapping Who Owns Cairo?. Yahia is a widely published author of books, academic papers and op eds, including Egypt’s Housing Crisis: The Shaping of Urban Space (AUC Press, 2020), which traces a social and statistical history of rental, self-built and mass housing, and co-edited Nashtari kul shay’ (We Buy Everything), (Dar al-Maraya, 2022) that investigates the commodification of housing and the city.