Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East

Forms and Norms: Questioning Illegal Urban Housing in the Middle East
Myriam Ababsa, Baudouin Dupret, and Eric Denis

The Production of Forms and Norms from Within
Mukhalafat in Damascus: The Form of an Informal Settlement
Etienne Léna

Selling One’s Property in an Informal Settlement: A Praxeological Approach to a Syrian Case Study
Baudouin Dupret and Myriam Ferrier

Securing Property in Informal Neighborhoods in Damascus through Tax Payments
Myriam Ferrier

Inhabitants’ Daily Practices to Obtain Legal Status for Their Homes and Security of Tenure: Egypt
Marion Séjourné

Vertical versus Horizontal: Constraints of Modern Living Conditions in Informal Settlements and the Reality of Construction
Franziska Laue

The Politics of Sacred Space in Downtown Beirut (1853–2008)
Ward Vloeberghs

Shared Social and Juridical Meanings as Observed in an Aleppo ‘Marginal’ Neighborhood
Zouhair Ghazzal

Public Policies toward Informal Settlements: From Eviction to Self-help Recognition (or Legitimization) and Back

Secure Land Tenure? Stakes and Contradictions of Land Titling and Upgrading Policies in the Global Middle East and Egypt
Agnès Deboulet

The Commodification of the Ashwa’iyyat: Urban Land, Housing Market Unification, and de Soto’s Interventions in Egypt
Eric Denis

Public Policies toward Informal Settlements in Jordan (1965–2010)
Myriam Ababsa

Mülk Allahindir (‘This House is God’s Property’): Legitimizing Land Ownership in the Suburbs of Istanbul
Jean-François Pérouse

Law, Rights, and Justice in Informal Settlements: The Crossed Frames of Reference of Town Planning in a Large Urban Development Project in Beirut
Valérie Clerc

The Coastal Settlements of Ouzaii and Jnah: Analysis of an Upgrading Project in Beirut
Falk Jähnigen