Egypt: Right to Housing initiative

Egyptian blogger and urbanism researcher Yahia Shawkat, in association with Mosireen, a citizen-journalism collective, and the Arab Digital Expression Foundation, ADEF have recently launched the “Right to Housing, a Socially Just and Sustainable Built Environment” initiative. This video, subtitled in English, entitled “No sir these are self-built communities” is the first episode of a documentary series, which is part of the initiative. For more, visit the SMOH blog [ar], and learn about the project through Twitter. You can also download the video from vimeo. (via Cairobserver)

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