📎 A practicing architect and urban planner, he is co-founder of CLUSTER, a platform for urban design and research in downtown Cairo.
📎 A graduate of Cairo University, he studied at UBC, Vancouver and UC Berkeley, specializing in informal urbanism.
📎 Has taught at local and international universities, most recently as a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield (UK). Takes an interdisciplinary approach to urban history and design, engaging in comparative analysis of urbanization processes in the global south. He has represented Egypt at the Architecture and Urban Biennales in Venice, Lisbon and Seoul.
📎 Co-author of Archiving the City in Flux (2013) and Street Vendors and the Contestation of Public Space (2017), co-editor of Learning from Cairo (2013) and Creative Cities: Reframing Downtown Cairo (2016), and has published numerous academic papers on Cairo and African cities.
📎 A graduate of Cairo University, he studied at UBC, Vancouver and UC Berkeley, specializing in informal urbanism.
📎 Has taught at local and international universities, most recently as a visiting professor at the University of Sheffield (UK). Takes an interdisciplinary approach to urban history and design, engaging in comparative analysis of urbanization processes in the global south. He has represented Egypt at the Architecture and Urban Biennales in Venice, Lisbon and Seoul.
📎 Co-author of Archiving the City in Flux (2013) and Street Vendors and the Contestation of Public Space (2017), co-editor of Learning from Cairo (2013) and Creative Cities: Reframing Downtown Cairo (2016), and has published numerous academic papers on Cairo and African cities.