Social Housing in the Middle East: Architecture, Urban Development, and Transnational ModernityAs oil rich countries in the Middle East are increasingly associated with soaring skyscrapers and modern architecture, attention is being diverted away from the pervasive struggles of social housing in those same urban settings. Social Housing in the Middle East traces the history of social housing both gleaming postmodern projects and bare bones urban housing structures in an effort to provide a wider understanding of marginalized spaces and their