Dona J. Stewart

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Florida, 1994

Research Interests: Urban, Economic, Middle East

Dona J. Stewart is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Associate Director of the Center for Middle East Peace, Culture and Development at Georgia State University.

Her teaching duties include: Geographic Research Methods, Cultural Geography, Geography of the Middle East and North Africa, and Geography of Africa.

Her primary research interests are comparative urbanization, urban spatial structure, urban landscape analysis and historical preservation in the developing world. Much of her research focuses on the Middle East and Africa. She has studied and worked in Egypt periodically since 1988 and has traveled extensively throughout the region.

Recent publications include:

	"Cairo", In Megacities: the European Space Agency's contribution to a better understanding of a global challenge. Salzburg (Austria): Geospace Verlag. pp. 74-79.
	"New tricks with old maps: urban landscape change in lesser developed countries", The Professional Geographer, 53: 361-373.
	"Middle East urban geography : identity and meaning", 2001, Urban Geography, 22: 175-181.
	New Egyptian desert cities, In Lithwick, Harvey and Yehuda Gradus (eds), Developing frontier cities: global perspectives and regional contexts. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 301-312.
	"Changing Cairo: the political economy of urban form", The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.1999, 23:146.
	"Economic recovery and reconstruction in postwar Beirut", The Geographical Review, October 1996 (published December 1997), 86: 487-504.
	"African urbanization: the impact of dependent linkages in a global economy", Tijdschrift voor Economische en Social Geografie, 1997, 88: 251-261.
	"Pesticide use habits and health awareness among small farmers in Ismailia, Egypt". Ambio, Journal of the Human Environment, September 1996, 25: 425.
	"Cities in the desert: the Egyptian new town program". Annals of the Association of American Geographers, September 1996, vol. 86: 459-480.

Link to GSU Center for Middle East Peace, Culture and Development

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