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Where are they? Yasir Sakr is in Amman, Jordan

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  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