The right to the river: Exclusive parks along the Nile in Cairo
(2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
All Outputs (25)
Challenges of Egypt’s North Coast in the absence of landscape architects (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
IFLA EUROPE NED_NET GROUP
The IFLA Europe Med_net Group unites countries that either border the Mediterranean or share similar climatic and environmental conditions. While primarily composed of members from the IFLA European Region, the group also... Read More about Challenges of Egypt’s North Coast in the absence of landscape architects.
2 Degrees Enough (2025)
Digital Artefact
"Daragten We Bas" Is the Arabic words for: (Two Degrees Are Enough), a podcast produced by the Middle East Program of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In this Arabic language podcast, host Amr Hamzawy joins Amir Gohar, Programme Leader for... Read More about 2 Degrees Enough.
Engaging Egypt’s landscape architects to combat climate change (2025)
Digital Artefact
There are climate risks across the national, regional, and local levels. Egypt is facing a particular struggle without integrated engagement from landscape architects.
Are red sea parks compatible with ecotourism? (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Global survey shows planners use widely varying sea-level rise projections for coastal adaptation (2023)
Journal Article
Including sea-level rise (SLR) projections in planning and implementing coastal adaptation is crucial. Here we analyze the first global survey on the use of SLR projections for 2050 and 2100. Two-hundred and fifty-three coastal practitioners engaged... Read More about Global survey shows planners use widely varying sea-level rise projections for coastal adaptation.
Book review of Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-state, by Gareth Doherty (2023)
Journal Article
Tourism and urbanism: Definitions and evolutions (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
PART (I)
• Questioning Tourism Concepts
PART (II)
• Tourism & Urbanism: Interconnected Evolution
PART (III)
• Urban Tourism: Considerations & Recommendations
Cairo's urban development (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
• About Egypt (History & Background)
• Cairo
• Planning of Cairo
• Recent Urban Projects
• Problematizing The New Plans for Cairo
• Open Discussions on Suggested Solutions
Tourism Governance: A Critical Discourse on a Global Industry (2022)
Book
Tourism Governance takes a systematic approach to reveal the varying internal and external dynamics that influence tourism policy and strategy across countries. With particular attention to the role of stakeholders and governmental scales, the book o... Read More about Tourism Governance: A Critical Discourse on a Global Industry.
Egypt (2022)
Book Chapter
Egypt has been known throughout history as a destination for travelers, particularly since it was visited by Herodotus during ancient times and he wrote about his sur-prises of the vast differences between Egypt and his homeland. During the Roman Emp... Read More about Egypt.
Blue-green infrastructure: A base for urban development opportunities (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tourism and urbanization, an interconnected evolution (2021)
Journal Article
While there is extensive literature on the evolution of tourism and the urbanization process, the interlinks between these two evolutions are not yet fully explored; maybe because they are separate disciplines, or taught independently of each other.... Read More about Tourism and urbanization, an interconnected evolution.
Unmasking Cairo: The Architecture of the City in an Age of Contradictions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cairo is a city that is changing dramatically. How does one probe a city amidst dynamic change? And what role does architecture play in it?
About this Event:
Underpinning this symposium is a hypothesis that a distinct phase in Cairo’s urban/archi... Read More about Unmasking Cairo: The Architecture of the City in an Age of Contradictions.
How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt (2020)
Journal Article
Eco-tourism is a growing part of the tourism industry. However, there are no agreed-upon criteria of what constitutes eco-tourism, so the industry is currently self-identified, with eco-lodges simply declaring themselves so. Here we present the first... Read More about How eco is eco-tourism? A systematic assessment of resorts on the Red Sea, Egypt.
Bridges over the Nile: Transportation corridors transformed into public spaces (2020)
Journal Article
Cairo is a congested city with high rate of urbanization and very limited public space. Cairo has one of the lowest rates of parkland per capita of any major city. Moreover, the banks of the Nile, formerly alive with activities such as washing, fishi... Read More about Bridges over the Nile: Transportation corridors transformed into public spaces.
California’s transportation fuel sector (TFS), whose assets supply crude oil from its source to end fuel users, will increasingly be exposed to extreme weather events including flooding and wildfire under climate change. Prior studies have not consid... Read More about Assessing extreme weather-related vulnerability and identifying resilience options for California's interdependent transportation fuel sector.
Greening and opening the public space of the Nile banks: A demonstration case study in Maadi, Cairo (2018)
Journal Article
The Nile, in general, and particularly in Cairo, is an ecological, cultural and social corridor that is not yet fully utilized. The 2011 Cairo workshop “Connecting Cairo to the Nile” identified the potential to increase accessibility to the river, su... Read More about Greening and opening the public space of the Nile banks: A demonstration case study in Maadi, Cairo.
Perspectives: Amir Gohar (2017)
Digital Artefact
A Q&A with Dr Amir Gohar focusing on his research and views on landscape architecture.
Flash flooding as a threat to settlements even in remote areas (2016)
Journal Article
Desert environments are subject to flash floods in wadi floors, which may occur only once every decade or two in a given wadi (dry channels or valleys, except during rains). In areas of rapid growth, flood-prone areas can become urbanized in the time... Read More about Flash flooding as a threat to settlements even in remote areas.