Deena Khalil

Urban sociologist
Lecturer in Sociology Department, American University in Cairo

[Habitat for Humanity Europe & Middle East @Habitat_EME]

Welcome to Day 2 of the #MENAHousingForum. Today we will announce the winners of the Innovation Awards and discuss best practices in housing finance, solutions towards a resilient housing sector and policies to support displaced populations. Stay tuned!

[Habitat for Humanity Europe & Middle East @Habitat_EME]

A quick peek behind the scenes of day 1 at the #MENAHousingForum 👀

There's still a few seats left to join our afternoon sessions virtually: https://t.co/SGsmsU53JO

Many thanks to the @HiltiFoundation for sponsoring our first-ever Middle East and North Africa Housing Forum.

[Habitat for Humanity Europe & Middle East @Habitat_EME]

"We live in a world devastated by overlapping crises making it much harder to address the issues that we face as a society."

Mona Fawaz
Professor of Urban Planning
American University of Beirut (AUB)
@AUB_Lebanon @mona_fawaz #MENAHousingForum

[Habitat for Humanity Europe & Middle East @Habitat_EME]

"In the climate change discussion, not enough attention has been given to nature-based solutions. We have lost the connection to earth & soil. The degradation of ecosystems has a big impact on city infrastructure."

Mohammad Asfour, Chair of @for_wadi
#MENAHousingForum

[Habitat for Humanity Europe & Middle East @Habitat_EME]

"Housing represents 80-90% of the building stock, but only renews at a 1-2% rate per year. What do we do with existing stock? Housing has to be seen not only as a piece of infrastructure but also as a system."

Luis Triveno
@WorldBank @luis_triveno

[Habitat for Humanity Europe & Middle East @Habitat_EME]

And the winners are...?

Congratulations to the MENA Housing Innovation Awards Winners! 🏆

Public Policies Category Winner: Social Housing and Mortgage Finance Fund (@SHMFFEG )

Best Practices Category Winner: @publicworks_lb

ShelterTech Category Winner: @ZelijInvent

[RadicalHousingJournal @radicalhousing.bsky.social @Radical_Housing]

Out today the @Radical_Housing Winter Issue 3.2!

"Valuing housing in the normalised crises:
Resistance, fatigue and lexicons of struggle"
https://t.co/kVnLYDugRZ

Edited by @camilacocina @femimeli @mglamarca @mara_ferreri

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

In this latest #SpecialIssue, @allenDPUadriana argues that the everday city-making practices of the 'unsheltered' are inextricably linked to the politics of bare citizenship. https://t.co/iaoS0SguEB #StigmaMaking #EverydayUrbanism

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

Findings from @gaya__tree and @UrbanDigitized's new study show that #COVID-19 risk at zip code level in NYC is influenced by socio-demographic vulnerability, epidemiological risk, and availability and access to critical #infrastructure https://t.co/zUvQ8Aws4H

[Jessica Rodrigues @rodriguesjm6]

Want to improve your academic writing?

Here are 5 tweets full of excellent writing tips.

Because it’s about time I start sharing all the great tweets I bookmark. @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

[T&F Social Sciences and Humanities @tandfhss]

Our new blog post, 'Students' Mental Health... The Road Back to Class', offers tips for faculty to protect and nurture students’ mental health. https://t.co/6B7NipKss5 #MentalHealthMatters

[Urban Studies Journal @USJ_online]

Latest article from @OluwafemiOlaj10 and @TaibatLawanson explores how government practices have shaped the city of #Lagos, Nigeria https://t.co/bcnq69HPBy #governance #development

[Sage Sociology @SageSociology]

Why does most academic research fail to make an impact? A new study suggests that ideas in scholarly research get lost in an attic of abstract, technical, and passive prose.

https://t.co/xb7gudOE4C #SocialScienceImpact @socscispace

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Antisemitism is one of the world’s greatest ever horrors.

There is nothing antisemitic about interviewing an 18 year old Palestinian girl talking about being bombed by the Israeli state.

These accounts know that, and are playing a cynical and disturbing game.

[Dr Meming @Dr_Meming]

Still looking

@OpenAcademics @AcademicChatter #phdchat #phdfriend #phdvoice #postdoclife

[Dr. ResearchRaptor @ResearchRaptors]

Student asked whether they have to do a presentation if they suffer from severe social phobia (often expected).
How about we stop forcing students to present in front of a live-audience and give them different options instead?
#OnlineTeaching #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

[Deena Khalil @deenakhalil]

Not to mention that many are now struggling with symptoms of anxiety and difficulty focusing that they have never had to deal with before

[Deena Khalil @deenakhalil]

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