Manar Moursi

Manar Moursi is a Ph.D. candidate in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program at MIT. Her research focuses on the history of modern coastal development in Egypt's Mediterranean. She studies both the built environment and infrastructural projects that facilitated this development, as well as artistic and cinematic representations of it. She works on her material through eco-critical, feminist, and post-colonial lenses.

Manar graduated with honors from the University of Virginia in 2004 and earned her professional Masters of Architecture degree from Princeton University in 2008. Before joining MIT, Manar taught architectural design studios at the Universities of Waterloo and Toronto while maintaining her practice as an artist and architect. For more on her practice: www.studiomeem.me