Deen Sharp is the co-director of Terreform (urban research centre founded by Michael Sorkin), Fellow in Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE) and formerly a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He has been a freelance journalist in Lebanon, writing for many international newspapers. He also worked for many agencies of the United Nations, among other UNDP and UN Habitat.