Contemporary urban landscapes in Egypt and Sudan are rich with material remains of past projects aimed at creating more egalitarian and socially just societies: culture palaces, theaters, youth centers, schools, hospitals, syndicates, factories and state-run consumer shops. What happens to all this colossal material and architectural infrastructure today when the state support for it seems to be fading? This special issue of Égypte Soudan Mondes Arabes sets out to answer this question by using ethnography and historical research to examine the layered entanglements of remain and renewal that characterize the contemporary Egyptian and Sudanese welfare states.
The special issue is fully accessible in open access:
https://journals.openedition.org/esma/3507
