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Sara Ibrahim Khalifa is a research assistant in urban studies at Housing and Building National Research Centre in Cairo, Egypt (HBRC); she earned her BSc degree in urban development and community design from Cairo University and is a PhD candidate at Cairo University in urban development and community design focusing on human aspects in design and urban planning. She has specialized in environment and behaviour studies in urban design of public. She has participated in several projects and studies with national and international organizations and is academically teaching architectural and urban design studios and Humanities Science in Architecture.

Zeinab Shafik, is a professor of Architecture Cairo University, an affiliate professor at The American University in Cairo, and a coordinator / reviewer of International and National academic accreditation. She holds the chair of Permanent Committee for Selection and Documentation of Buildings of Heritage Value, Cairo Municipality. She is academically teaching in architectural design studios; she teaches humanities science in architecture; and community development and participation graduate/undergraduate level. Her research interests are human sciences in architecture and urban design; phenomenology, anthropology, and the critical theory of sociology; and community development and participation in Egyptian contexts of heritage value. She is a coordinator of International and National Architectural Competition: “Grand Egyptian Museum”, “Abdel Naser Museum” and “arc Vision Prize; Women and Architecture”. She is a coeditor of the books; “Dynamics and Resilience of Informal Areas: International Perspectives”; 2016, Springer; “New Cities and Community Extensions in Egypt and the Middle East: Visions and Challenges”; 2019, Springer. She is the coauthor of “The Grand Museum of Egypt, International Architecture Competition” Two Volumes Book by AUC Press; June 2003; and the coauthor of “Radical Pedagogies”; 2022 by MIT Press.

Dina Shehayeb is an architect/urban designer, professor, and currently a programme director of the architecture and urban design programme at Nile University, and the principal of her private practice Shehayeb CONSULT with a BSc and MSc from Cairo University in architecture and neighbourhood design; she earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee USA in human aspects in design. She specializes in the integrative theory and methods that address the environment in its socio-physical totality. Her experience lies in people-centred design and planning applied to national and international projects, design guidelines, policy briefs, training and advisory committees.