Maitha Almazrooei

Meitha Almazrooei is a Ph.D. candidate in History, Theory, and Criticism of Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her M.S. in Critical, Curatorial & Conceptual Practices in Architecture from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Her curatorial and editorial work encompassed public programming for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, publications for The National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates in Venice, and the establishment of WTD Magazine, an architecture and design publication in 2012, as a platform to collect urban narratives from the Arabian Gulf, Eastern Mediterranean, and North Africa.