Change
We are now looking at the building as it is today. The inhabitants of the Nid d’Abeille neighborhood inhabited, appropriated, influenced and changed the building according to their own needs and ideas, as can be seen in figure 1, the building upon completion, and figure 3, the building as it looks today.
This is a process comparable to how intellectuals in the Middle East and North Africa responded to the arrival of the colonial West and its ideas of modernity. This neighborhood and its architecture can be seen as a symbol for the intellectual discussions on questions of “modernity” and identity by Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, Gamel Nasser, and Sayyid Qutb