Professor Dr. Asmaa Elgamal

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Asmaa Elgamal is a Lecturer at King's College London with a PhD in International Development Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Before joining King's, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Her research draws from conflict studies, urban planning, and critical histories of development, exploring how imperial and national security regimes shape institutions and spatial land planning. Currently, she is working on a book project that examines the interactions between empire, security, and the production of knowledge in land planning agencies in colonial Morocco, and analyzes the impact of institutional infrastructure on contemporary practices in post-independence states. Her research interests include sociology of development, urban planning, land governance, conflict, peace-building, militarism, securitization, colonialism, empire, political economy, Middle East North Africa politics, knowledge production, and environmental history.

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