Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East

Myriam Ababsa is a research fellow in social geography at the French Institute for the Near East in Amman. Her work focuses on the impact of public policies on regional and urban development in Jordan and Syria. Baudouin Dupret is a research fellow at the French National Center for Scientific Research, based in Paris, and a lecturer in Islamic law and socio-legal sciences at the University of Louvain. He has published extensively in the fields of the sociology and anthropology of law, legistlation, and media, especially in the Middle East. Eric Dennis is a senior research fellow affiliated with the French National Center for Scientific Research, and is based at the French Institute in Pondicherry, India. He has published widely in the field of urban studies and geography of the Middle East.

• Forms and Norms: Questioning Illegal Urban Housing in the Middle EastMyriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret, and Eric Denis The Production of Forms and Norms from WithinMukhalafat in Damascus: The Form of an Informal SettlementEtienne LénaSelling One’s Property in an Informal Settlement: A Praxeological Approach to a Syrian Case StudyBaudouin Dupret and Myriam FerrierSecuring Property in Informal Neighborhoods in Damascus through Tax PaymentsMyriam FerrierInhabitants’ Daily Practices to Obtain Legal Status for Their Homes and Security of Tenure: EgyptMarion SéjournéVertical versus Horizontal: Constraints of Modern Living Conditions in Informal Settlements and the Reality of ConstructionFranziska LaueThe Politics of Sacred Space in Downtown Beirut (1853–2008)Ward VloeberghsShared Social and Juridical Meanings as Observed in an Aleppo ‘Marginal’ NeighborhoodZouhair GhazzalPublic Policies toward Informal Settlements: From Eviction to Self-help Recognition (or Legitimization) and BackSecure Land Tenure? Stakes and Contradictions of Land Titling and Upgrading Policies in the Global Middle East and EgyptAgnès DebouletThe Commodification of the Ashwa’iyyat: Urban Land, Housing Market Unification, and de Soto’s Interventions in EgyptEric DenisPublic Policies toward Informal Settlements in Jordan (1965–2010)Myriam AbabsaMülk Allahindir (‘This House is God’s Property’): Legitimizing Land Ownership in the Suburbs of IstanbulJean-François PérouseLaw, Rights, and Justice in Informal Settlements: The Crossed Frames of Reference of Town Planning in a Large Urban Development Project in BeirutValérie ClercThe Coastal Settlements of Ouzaii and Jnah: Analysis of an Upgrading Project in BeirutFalk Jähnigen