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Wiebe RUIJTENBERG graduated from the Research Master in the Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on gated communities in Cairo’s satellite cities. Using ethnography in his dissertation, he explored the ways in which residents shape their gated community, while being shaped by it at the same time. Wiebe’s research interests include notions of urban space, the process of identity formation, and the politics of culture. He is especially inspired by ethnography, as a research method, a form of art, and a way of seeing and writing the world. As a way of doing ethnography, Wiebe cycles around Cairo trying to sense and understand the city as he navigates it. Wiebe joins CILAS as a visiting fellow in the field of social sciences and will host the thematic course the urban experience: an ethnographic approach.