Where are they? Yasir Sakr is in Amman, Jordan
MSI Press authors are located all over the world. Getting to know the authors can also mean getting to know a new part of the world. We will be sharing this information on a regular basis. Follow us and map our authors' locations. Yasir Sakr, author of The Subversive Utopia , lives in Amman, Jordan, where he teaches architecture at one of the many universities there. Here is some information about Amman. Amman ( English: / ə ˈ m ɑː n / ; Arabic : عَمَّان , ʿAmmān pronounced [ʕamːaːn] ) [5] [6] is the capital and the largest city of Jordan , and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. [7] With a population of 4,061,150 as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant region, the fifth-largest city in the Arab world , and the ninth-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East . [8] The earliest evidence of settlement in Amman dates to the 8th millennium BC, in a Neolithic site known as 'Ain Ghaz