Biography

My research spans architectural and urban studies with a focus on cities in the Global South. I am particularly interested in how urban space consolidates as a site of conflict during periods of political and cultural transformation.

My PhD dissertation 'Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materializing Revolution in the City' was supervised by Prof Wendy Pullan. The work foregrounded the city, and not the state, in understanding revolutionary trajectories. Drawing on fieldwork in Tunis, it demonstrated how political and cultural sites of power in the city become contested as revolution continues and evolves. These contestations do not constitute a break from history, but rather its problematization, as imperial and colonial urban legacies are considered in a new light.

Prior to my PhD, I worked in architecture, planning and higher education in New York, London, ‫ Palestine and Doha.

Previous Education

University of Texas Austin
University College London