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Deen Sharp
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Geographer, guilty of thinking too much and not thinking at all.

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Deen Sharp @deensharp.bsky.social · May 22
BOOK LAUNCH

9 Jun 2025, 17:00 – 19:00

Join myself, architect Sawsan Abou Zainedin, Ammar Azzouz (University of Oxford), Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge) and Emma DiNapoli for the launch of our book: Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria.

Full details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
Book Launch: Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria
Join the UCL Urban Lab and The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) to launch: Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria edited by Nasser Rabbat and Deen Sharp.
www.ucl.ac.uk
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dawnmenaorg.bsky.social
In an excerpt of their new book, "Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria," Nasser Rabbat and @deensharp.bsky.social call for reconstruction in the country to take on a new look—one directed at "a just peace, community building and decolonization."
Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria: When Rebuilding Becomes a Weapon of War
Since initiating our scholarly dialogue in 2019 on the political and social implications of reconstruction in Syria, the urgency of this conversation has only intensified.
dawnmena.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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tibg.bsky.social
New in TIBG!

Geography in the World, part 3: Area Studies

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's collection draws together authors from Egypt, Singapore, China, South Africa & Russia to explore non-Western geography's relationship with Area Studies.

Read all papers here ⬇️

tinyurl.com/5n72yt46
A graphic advertising a new collection of papers in Transactions called 'Geography in the World 3: Area Studies' with the title curved around a black and white image of the globe in the centre, and the Transactions logo next to the Royal Geographical Society logo at the top of the red background. With contributions from: Aya Nassar, Brenda S.A. Yeoh, Deen Sharp, Han Cheng, Maano Ramutsindela & Vera Smirnova
September 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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tibg.bsky.social
1) 'Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area'

Han Cheng & @deensharp.bsky.social's introduction to the collection proposes a reoriented critical geography of 'area' by examining geography's relationship with area studies beyond the Anglo-American tradition.

doi.org/10.1111/tran...
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Transactions by Han Cheng & Deen Sharp (2025) entitled 'Worlding geography, area studies and the study of area' with a red banner at the top. This paper introduces the collection of five short papers written by scholars from Egypt, Russia, Singapore, China and South Africa that advance this journal's ‘Geography in the World’ initiative through a more robust engagement between geography and area studies. Geographers have increasingly addressed the troubled relationship that their discipline has with the field of area studies. Less registered, however, in Anglophone debates are the presence and politics of other geographical traditions of area studies. In this themed intervention, we propose a reoriented critical geography of ‘area’ by closely assessing non-Western geography's relationship with its area studies counterpart across a range of (geo)political, economic, institutional and cultural contexts beyond the Anglo-American ‘core’.
September 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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noemamag.com
In some parts of the Arab world, architects are repurposing ancient methods to naturally lower building temperatures without using modern air conditioning, @mariannedhe.bsky.social reports.

But can it be deployed at scale in a region so thoroughly reliant on ACs?

#middleeast #climate
The Gulf World That Air Conditioning Wrought | NOEMA
From Saudi Arabia to Qatar, rulers have used modern air conditioning to control landscapes and lives, forgoing traditional methods of keeping cool.
www.noemamag.com
August 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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merip.bsky.social
Episode 1 of the MERIP Podcast is now live!

Check out this interview with Mona Tajali about her recent article "Women and Politics in Post-Jina Iran" below on Spotify!

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Episode 1: Mona Tajali
The MERIP Podcast · Episode
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July 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.
June 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
deensharp.bsky.social
You have to love these incredible puff pieces of billionaires by the @financialtimes.com. This profile details how billionaire Walton drives humble Volvo (after a “clapped-out Subaru Forester”). Wonder if FT asked if he also owns private jet, or a luxury yacht along with that?

on.ft.com/40aMIWg
Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s $15bn bet on the environment
With an estimated worth of $39bn, he wants to use market mechanisms to save the oceans
on.ft.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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armedgroups.bsky.social
New research ⬇️
Urbicide in Khartoum, co-published with @smallarmssurvey.bsky.social

➡️ Examines how the war is reshaping Sudan’s capital through deliberate destruction, spatial control and targeting of civilian infrastructure

www.armedgroupscentre.org/reports-and-...
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Centre on Armed Groups — Urbicide in Khartoum: An Analysis of the Al-Amarat and Mayo Neighbourhoods, 2023-24
This report investigates how the war in Sudan is transforming Khartoum through acts of urbicide, the deliberate destruction of urban environments. It draws on satellite imagery, eyewitness testimony, ...
www.armedgroupscentre.org
June 4, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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smallarmssurvey.bsky.social
#Urbicide —the deliberate destruction of urban environments—is rife throughout #Khartoum, and a tactic in the #Sudan war. Co-published with @armedgroups.bsky.social, our new publication examines this weaponisation of civilian spaces in modern warfare
www.smallarmssurvey.org/resource/urb...
June 4, 2025 at 8:50 AM
deensharp.bsky.social
Our report on urbicide in Khartoum is out! It provides an Urbicide anaAnalysis of the Al-Amarat and Mayo Neighbourhoods from 2023-2024.

www.armedgroupscentre.org/reports-and-...
Centre on Armed Groups — Urbicide in Khartoum: An Analysis of the Al-Amarat and Mayo Neighbourhoods, 2023-24
This report investigates how the war in Sudan is transforming Khartoum through acts of urbicide, the deliberate destruction of urban environments. It draws on satellite imagery, eyewitness testimony, ...
www.armedgroupscentre.org
June 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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deensharp.bsky.social
My piece in Cityscapes:

Between the hammer and the rubble

On the 16th of April 2023, a military projectile exploded in the courtyard of my home in Khartoum, blowing a large hole through the exterior wall and exposing my neighbour’s toilet….

Read here: cityscapesmag.com/cs-magazine/...
Between the hammer and the rubble - CS
Deen Sharp investigates “urbicide”—the destruction of entire cities, the use of the built-environment in oppressive militarisation, and the development and securitisation of planned urban space—across...
cityscapesmag.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
deensharp.bsky.social
My piece in Cityscapes:

Between the hammer and the rubble

On the 16th of April 2023, a military projectile exploded in the courtyard of my home in Khartoum, blowing a large hole through the exterior wall and exposing my neighbour’s toilet….

Read here: cityscapesmag.com/cs-magazine/...
Between the hammer and the rubble - CS
Deen Sharp investigates “urbicide”—the destruction of entire cities, the use of the built-environment in oppressive militarisation, and the development and securitisation of planned urban space—across...
cityscapesmag.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:18 AM
deensharp.bsky.social
Cityscapes is online! See my essays on the intersection of war, power and urbanization and on defining an Arab region.

cityscapesmag.com
Cityscapes magazine - CS
This has been our guiding philosophy since Cityscapes Magazine was founded in 2010: The often bewildering array of urban and societal challenges facing humanity today cannot be answered within the con...
cityscapesmag.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
deensharp.bsky.social
BOOK LAUNCH

9 Jun 2025, 17:00 – 19:00

Join myself, architect Sawsan Abou Zainedin, Ammar Azzouz (University of Oxford), Wendy Pullan (University of Cambridge) and Emma DiNapoli for the launch of our book: Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria.

Full details: www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
Book Launch: Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria
Join the UCL Urban Lab and The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU) to launch: Reconstruction as Violence in Assad's Syria edited by Nasser Rabbat and Deen Sharp.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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inclusivepeace.bsky.social
Who decides what gets rebuilt after conflict and how? Too often, reconstruction serves politics over communities.

Our latest piece explores why bottom-up rebuilding is key to lasting peace in the MENA region.

Insights from @deensharp.bsky.social, Zozan Alloush & Nourah Shuaibi: bit.ly/3FDgpYQ
A man uses a handheld power tool to smooth a wooden dowel while sitting barefoot in a workshop filled with wooden sticks.
March 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
deensharp.bsky.social
So most the British army…
March 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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inclusivepeace.bsky.social
Webinar Recording Now Live! 🚨

How does post-conflict reconstruction shape political transitions in MENA? @deensharp.bsky.social, Zozan Alloush & Nourah Shuaibi break it down in this powerful discussion.

Don’t miss their insights—watch now 👉 youtu.be/-0i_ZepvpqE
March 5, 2025 at 1:07 PM
deensharp.bsky.social
Final day to submit your abstract is tomorrow!!
February 27, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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urbanstudiesjournal.com
Last chance to submit your abstracts for prioritised asssessment for The Urbanisation of #Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation #CallforPapers

Visit our website for details: https://buff.ly/4gw8zgb

@deensharp.bsky.social
Background of blue world map showing lights of cities at night. White and yellow text reads: CRITICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ADVANCES IN URBAN STUDIES: CALL FOR PAPERS. The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation. In this inaugural call for papers, which focuses on armed conflict, the Journal invites both empirical and conceptual papers on the urbanisation of conflict and conflict-driven urbanisation. Visit urbanstudiesonline.com/callforpapers for details
February 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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urbanstudiesjournal.com
📣 Only 2 weeks left to submit your abstracts for our #CallforPapers: The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation ⏰

#UrbanStudies Journal invites contributions that explore #ArmedConflict and #violence in urban contexts.

https://buff.ly/42M9WUN

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The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation - Urban Studies
Urban Studies Journal Call for Papers is now open: The Urbanisation of Conflict and Conflict Urbanisation. Submission deadline: 30 June 2025.
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February 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
that's the Harvard we know and love
A previous version of this article stated that the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program had been disbanded. In fact, according to a University spokesperson, the program has not been discontinued, though its employees have been laid off.
January 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
deensharp.bsky.social
…for pathogens.”

It’s just on the next page and we can’t see it, right?
January 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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merip.bsky.social
NEW: Previewing Issue 313, Samer Abboud dives into the proliferation of data-driven and AI-assisted refugee response across the Middle East, and the problems it poses to the future of humanitarianism.

READ NOW
Artificial Humanitarianism—The Data-Driven Future of Refugee Responses - MERIP
AI and big data are changing contemporary humanitarianism for better and worse.
buff.ly
January 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
deensharp.bsky.social
Deadline has been extended until the end of February for abstracts.
January 13, 2025 at 2:09 PM