MONA FAWAZ is Professor in Urban Studies and Planning at the American University of Beirut. She is also a research director and co-founder of the Beirut Urban Lab, a regional research center based at the American University of Beirut and invested in working towards more inclusive, just, and viable cities.
Mona’s research stems from the imperative of making cities more just. Her research has addressed urbanization through the lenses of informality and the law, land, housing, property and (...)

Séminaire de Mona Fawaz
Professeure d’urbanisme à l’American University of Beirut, Liban
Professeure invitée du Département Géographie et Territoires de l’ENS
Jeudi 30 mars 2023, 10h– 12h30
Building Booms, Busts, and Ruins in Beirut
Discussed by Agnès Deboulet, Professeure à l’université Paris-8
Between 2004 and 2013, Beirut experienced a decade of a frenzied building boom. Roughly 10% of the city’s residential building stock was redeveloped, with high-rise apartment buildings spreading in all city (...)