EMAIL: deensharp AT gmail dot com

Deen Sharp, PhD, is a Visiting LSE Fellow in Geography and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE). He currently works as a consultant with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on water responsive urbanism in Africa. He was formerly a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2018-2019).

He has co-edited four books, most recently Reconstruction as Violence (AUC Press: 2025) and Learning Ecologies in Architecture (Architangle: 2025), as well as Beyond the Square: Urbanism and the Arab Uprisings (Urban Research: 2016) and Open Gaza: Architectures of Hope (AUC Press: 2021). He has published in top-ranking journals, including Geoforum, Progress in Human Geography and Urban Studies. Sharp is a corresponding editor for Urban Studies and is the editor of the only urban studies book series on the Arab world at the American University of Cairo Press. He is currently working on a special issue of Urban Studies on urban conflict and the urbanisation of conflict.

Previously, he was a freelance journalist and consultant based in Lebanon. He has written for a number of publications, including Jadaliyya, Portal 9, MERIP, Arab Studies Journal and the Guardian. He has worked for several UN agencies, including UNDP, UN-Habitat, and UNEP, as well as governments and international NGOs.