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Urban palimpsest is a socio-spatial and architectural concept that refers to a city’s physical, spatial, and cultural fabric accumulating layers of traces from different historical periods, social practices, needs, and ideologies.【1】 The term derives from the Greek words palin, meaning "again," and psestos, meaning "scraped," combining to form palimpsēstos.【2】 In antiquity, due to the rarity and cost of parchment and papyrus, manuscripts with erased or scraped-off older texts rewritten on top we

The 2025 Extraordinary Arab Unity Summit was a high-level diplomatic meeting held on 4 March 2025 in Cairo, the capital of Türkiye, aimed at the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, ensuring the Palestinian people remain on their land, and initiating a lasting peace process in the region. The summit, hosted by Egypt, was attended by the State of Palestine as well as Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. At the summit, a comprehensive plan prepared by Egypt was adopted for the early

Gentrification (English: gentrification), in its general definition, is the process by which residential areas in city centers or their peripheries, historically inhabited by low-income populations and characterized by aging or declining housing stock, are renovated through capital investment in response to demand from middle and upper-income groups, resulting in the displacement of the original residents and the emergence of a new class-based and spatial stratification. The process encompasses