Dina Taha

Dina Taha is a Ph.D. student in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art program. Her research interests center on the questions of temporality raised by architectural preservation, demolition, and construction. During her time at MIT, she plans to focus on state-led architectural and infrastructural projects undertaken in Egypt in the twentieth century, examining how temporal narratives were mediated through the built environment.

She earned her Master of Environmental Design (M.E.D) degree from Yale and a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from the American University in Cairo. During her time at Yale, she served as the publisher for Paprika! (2018–2019), the architecture school’s graduate student journal, where she also co-edited three issues. Dina has previously conducted archival research and oral history with the late architect, Abdel Halim Ibrahim (1941–2021) for his book Abdel Halim Ibrahim: An Architecture of Collective Memory by James Steele (AUC Press, 2020), and has most recently worked as a researcher at the al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her work has been published in Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review (TDSR) and in Paprika!.