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SHAHIRA FAHMY
FOUNDER | PRINCIPAL
SHAHIRA FAHMY ARCHITECTS SFA
10 GEZIRET EL ARAB STREET, MOHANDESSIN, CAIRO, EGYPT
487 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10014, US
C +1 347 327 8762 | +2 0122 218 9039
SHAHIRA.FAHMY@SFAHMY.COM
Shahira Fahmy is an architect, urbanist and creative researcher. She is the founder of Shahira Fahmy
Architects SFA, an architecture and urbanism practice established in Cairo, Egypt (2005) with focus on
the business and intelligence of developing cities. Fahmy has built projects in the Middle East, London,
and Europe, and has been hailed by Phaidon as one of the “Architects building the Arab future”
(2011). Fahmy’s work has been published in the Financial Times, the Architectural Record, the
Architectural Review, the New York times T magazines, Frame, and Wallpaper, among others. Her
most recent projects include: the restoration and recreation of an experimental arts hall, the Wooster
Group, a theatre company rooted in Soho since the 70’s, New York (2015); the expansion of the
Delfina foundation in London, to be the largest provider of international residencies in the city,
promoting and forging artistic collaborations (2014); the master plan of ‘Andermatt Swiss Alps’
project phase III, a geological transformation processes- a historical military operation terrain
metamorphosis to a residential and ski resort-retaining the memory and initiating a regeneration of a
new sources of income to the village (completion in 2018); the table series for Moroso titled:
Mashrabeya (2015); and most recently Fahmy is among 21 entrepreneurs from around the world,
invited by the UNEP to ‘the Mask Architects Project’, Launched at Habitat III, in Quito, Ecuador
(2016), and the Climate Change Conference in Marrakech COP22 (2016).
Born and raised in Cairo, Fahmy studied architecture at the University of Cairo and later obtained a
post-professional degree at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (LOEB 2015) with her
research on rapid urbanization and Mapping. She is a two-time recipient of Harvard University’s post-
doc fellowships for her prescient work exploring the relationships between urbanism, politics, and
human rights: from the Berkman Klein Center at the Law School (2016), and the W.E.B Du Bois
research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at the Faculty of
Arts and Sciences (2016). Fahmy taught at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, in
New York (2014). She has acted as a speaker and visiting critic at venues such as Harvard University,
MIT, Yale University, Columbia University GSAPP, Cooper Union, City College of New York, the
Architectural Association AA in London, the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA, Aga Khan
Award for Architecture AKAA, and the American Chamber of Commerce AMCHAM. She serves as a
nominator and a reviewer for both awards: the Aga Khan Award for Architecture AKAA and the
Jameel Prize for contemporary art and design established by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
in London. Fahmy also served as a member of the board for the International Community of the Red
Cross ICRS, Egypt (2012).
Fahmy is fluent in French, English and Arabic, and she splits her time between New York, Paris, and
Cairo
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Education | Teaching
*74 Egypt
16 Berkman Klein Fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard University, Law
School.
W.E.B Du Bois Fellow at The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research,
at Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
15 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, The Graduate School of Design.
14 Adjunct Assistant Professor
At Columbia University, the Graduate school of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
13 Technical Project Reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 12th
Cycle 2013.
97-07 Assistant Professor, Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture Department.
04 M. Sc. in Architecture
Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.
97 B. Sc. in Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University.
Class 1997, Valedictorian
Awarded the Theory and History of Architecture Prize | Distinction
Awarded the Structural Theories Prize | Distinction
Since 12 Board Member of the International Community of the Red Cross ICRS, Egypt.
Since 12 Associate Member of the Society of Egyptian Architects with International Union of Architects
Since 99 Member of Ahmed Bahaa Eldin Friends Association, social-benefit NGO, Egypt.
Since 98 Member of Egyptian Earth Construction Association EESA, social-benefit NGO, Egypt.
Since 97 Member Egyptian Engineering Syndicate.
Selected Experience
2016 Selected among 21 entrepreneurs from 12 countries by the UNEP United Nations Environment Program
to be a member of the “Masked Architects Project” to be launched at Habitat III, International event
dedicated to housing and sustainable urban development, in Quito, Ecuador, 2016. As well as the climate
Change conference in Marrakech (COP22) 2016. This project is part of UNEP and Art of change 21.
This international design event is an opportunity to identify, nurture and promote projects that offer
tangible evidence of how design can improve lives, within the ecological context. This is not the first
time Fahmy has contributed to draw awareness on environmental challenges, in 2007 she was the winner
of a furniture competition launched to Katrina aftermath using recycling materials, published in Interior
Design Magazine in New York 70th
issue, 2007; and most recently her series of Tables for Moroso titled
Mashrabeya is another exporation in the recycling materials especially wood (2015).
2015 Nominator for the Jameel Prize 2016, an international award for contemporary art and design.
The Prize, worth £25,000, was established by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London
2014 Fahmy’s Advanced Design Studio at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning &
Preservation GSAPP, focused on exploring ‘sites of contestations’ in two cities: Istanbul and Cairo,
specifically focusing on "micro sites" and their "macro networks" to introduce architectural interventions
at multiple scales. The main objective of the studio is to invent spatial strategies that challenge and
re-imagine the power struggles that are currently being played out in both cities, while identifying echoes
between these two cities and generate strategies that will be tested at varying scales.
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2013 Technical project reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 12th
Cycle 2013
Visiting and reviewing the shortlisted projects on site, and advising the master Jury on the final decision
and the Proposed apportionment of credit and prize funds, the Award sum of 1,000,000 USD. The
outcome of the process was published in: “Architecture is Life” Aga Khan Award for Architecture book,
edited by Mohsen Mostafavi, published by Lars Muller Publishers, Germany.
05-- Shahira Fahmy Architects
The overarching aim of SFA projects is to bridge critical gaps in infrastructure and urban development by
creating coherent networks and global exchanges that work for people. The scope of SFA is not limited
to urban, and architecture yet it experiment with all others mediums of interventions product design
among other things, and explores all social and cultural possibilities that contribute to urbanism.
Selected completed projects: the Delfina foundation, London 2014; the Ahmed Bahaa El Din Culutre
Center, Assyuit, Egypt 2013; the Sodic Allegria compound, Cairo, Egypt 2014-2018; the Westown city
for Sodic and Solidere, Cairo, Egypt (2011); the American University in Cairo: the Malak Gabr Theater,
the Moataz El Alfi Hall, the faculty offices and facilities, 2005-2008; the Designopolis: Egypt’s first
Design center, 2014; and the E2 Industrial park, in west of Cairo, for Samcrete developments (2011);
among others.
Selected work in progress: the Wooster Group, the Performing Garage in Soho, New York 2015; the
Andermatt planning and architecture phase three master plan, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, in progress
(2011-2018).
99-03 Architect at Dar El Handasah, Shair and Partners, Cairo, Egypt.
The international acclaimed Dar Group, a multi-disciplinary firm working globally on infrastructure
projects, Fahmy led the design and development team, coordinating a diverse global network of
stakeholders and experts collaborators (involving -including Perkins + Will, among others), on numerous
projects in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Among these projects were the Dubai Airport, the New
Cairo International airport, the Yemen airport, Angola projects, and the Makkah expansion plan, among
others.
94-98 Community Design Collaborative, Abdel Halim Ibrahim, Cairo, Egypt.
Fahmy began here early practice as a surveyor -mapping of Old Islamic Cairo project -as preparation
work for the rehabilitation process, and the Azhar Park by the Aga Khan Foundation.
Prizes | Awards
2016 Nominated for Aga Khan Award for Architecture | Designopolis project | Cairo, Egypt.
2013 International Mimar Sinan Prize, by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul and the Union of
Mediterranean Architects within the MED 21 Programme promoted by Osservatorio del Mediterraneo of
Rome | Winner.
ArchiVision International Award by Italcementi Group, Italy, Woman-Architecture | Shortlisted | Profile.
ArchiVision International Award by Italcementi Group, Italy, Woman-Architecture | commended | A
House
ArchiVision International Award by Italcementi Group, Italy, Woman-Architecture | Shortlisted |
Designopolis project
2012 Aga Khan Award for Architecture | nominated | Ahmed Bahaa El Din Culture Center in Assyuit, Egypt.
2011 Abu Dhabi Cityscape Awards, UAE | Residential Future | Shortlisted | HK House
2010 Green GOOD DESIGN Award | The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies
and The Chicago Athenaeum | Winner | Block 36
World Architecture Community Awards | 20+10+X Architecture Awards 6th
Cycle | Winner | Block 36
World Architecture News Awards | Education Sector | mentioned | The American University in Cairo
Theater interior design.
2009 World Architecture Festival, Barcelona | Future Residential | Shortlisted | Block 36
Dubai Cityscape Award, UAE | Residential Future | Shortlisted | Block 36
MIPIM Architectural Review magazine | Future Project Awards | commended | Block 36
2008 Traffic Design Award, Dubai UAE | Shortlisted | Inside Outside Tea Cup
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Traffic Design Award, Dubai UAE | Shortlisted | Rubber and Sticks
2007 The Leaf Young Architect of the Year Awards | Finalist | House on the outskirts of Cairo
The Leaf Young Architect of the Year Awards | Finalist | House with a pyramids view
Interior Design Magazine USA | Katrina Future Furniture Awards | Winner | Tik and Tak stools
2005 Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Young Architect of the year Award | Winner | House on the outskirts of Cairo
2000 Medina Design Excellence Awards | Juror Ingo Maurer | Frist Prize | the Turban Floor Lamp
Competitions
2012 Delfina Foundation Architecture Competition, London, UK | with Studio Octopi | Winner | Completed
2011 Andermatt Swiss Alps Planning and Architecture Competition, Aldorf, Switzerland | Winner | due 2018
Juror | Guest Critic
2013-16 Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Andres Jaque Studio
Harvard Graduate School of Design | Inaki Abalos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning | Azra Aksamija Studio
Yale University, School of Architecture | David Adjaye Studio
Cooper Union, School of Art.
City College of New York, the Graduate Urban Design Program | Micheal Sorkins Urban Planning
Studio.
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Real Estate and Planning
Studio.
Harvard GSD | New Geographies Lab: Territorial Tropes, midterm review | Hashim Sarkis
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Amale Andraos Studio
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Urban Planning Studio
The Third Omrania | Center for the Study of the Built Environment | juror
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013, the 12th
cycle | Technical Project reviewer.
2010 New York Institute of Technology | student projects final review | juror.
Lectures | Talks
2016 The Economic Times ACETECH - Asia’s largest exhibition on Architecture, Design, Interior products
and building Materials, Mumbai, India.
2015 Fall Colloquium, at Barker Center, Harvard University FAS | 10.2015
Aga Khan Program Lecture: by Diane Singerman, with Shahira Fahmy | Harvard GSD | 01.2015
2014 The Harvard – MIT Fellowships Ignite event | Neiman Foundation for journalism | speaker | 10.2014
Cooper Gallery | Extraordinary City: The Kingelez Building |Shahira Fahmy and Justin Lee | 12.2014
Architectural Association School of Architecture London | geography and design | Paul Finch | 4.2014
Columbia University GSAPP | Divergent Lines, Emergent Spaces | Mabel Wilson, Julie Mehretu, 4.2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning | Workshop | 02.2014
2013 Harvard Graduate School of Design | Inaki Abalos studio | 12.2013
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning | Azra Aksamija | 12.2013
Yale University, School of Architecture | David Adjaye studio | 12.2013
Cooper Union, School of Art | 12.2013
City College of New York, the Graduate Urban Design Program | Micheal Sorkins | 12.2013
Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Amale Andraos | 10.2013
Arkimeet | Architects meet in Istanbul | Turkey | Gokhan Karakus moderator | 10.2013
Columbia University School of Architecture Planning and Preservation | Studio X Amman Lab | 10.2013
The Third Omrania | Center for the Study of the Built Environment | Jordan | 9.2013
The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL | The Altas of the Unbuilt World | British Council | 06.2013
Medibat Salon Mediterranean du Batiment, Sfax, Tunis | 03.2013
2012 City Debates Conference, American University of Beirut | Re-conceptualising Boundaries | 05.2013
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American University of Beirut | Shahira Fahmy Architects Profile: The In-Between Space | 04.2013
American University in Cairo | Closing Ceremony of Design for the Streets Student Competition |
04.2013
Salone Satellite 15th Anniversary | Salone Internationale Del Mobile, Milan | 04.2013
2011 Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA | Public and Civic Spaces in the Arab World | 06.2013
The Harvard Arab Alumni Association | 6th Annual Arab World Conference, Syria | Urban Panel |
04.2013
2010 Arkitera, The 25th Arkimeet | University Bahcesehir, Istanbul | Shahira Fahmy Architects Profile |
04.2010
Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture Departement, Post Graduate Degree | 02.2010
Exhibitions
2016 The Climate Change Conference COP22 in Marrakech | November 2016
Habitat III, housing | Quito, Ecuador | October 2016
Dubai Design Week | Cairo Now: City incomplete | October 2016
Moroso, Design week, New York | 05.2016
2015 Moroso, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy | 04.2014
2013 Altas of the Unbuilt World | The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL | London Architectural Festival |
06.2013
2012 The Home in the Arab World | The Mosaic Rooms, A. M. Quattan Foundation | 06.2012
2011 Andermatt Swiss Alps, Aldorf, Canton Uri, Switzerland | 12.2011
Green Good Design Award | The European Center for Architecture | Athens, Greece | 04.2011
Abu Dhabi Cityscape, UAE | shortlisted project Awards Exhibition | 04.2011
2010 +20 Egypt Design | Curator Paola Navona | 06.2010
2009 World Architecture Festival, Barcelona | 11.2010
Dubai Cityscape, UAE | shortlisted project Awards Exhibition | 09.2010
Mipim Architectural Review Magazine | Cannes, France | 03.2009
2008 Dubai Cityscape, UAE | Block 36 project | 10.2008
Traffic Design Competition Exhibition | Dubai, UAE | 11.2008
Furnex Egyptian International Furniture and Furnishing Trade Fair | Cairo, Egypt | 11.2008
2007 The Leaf Young Architect of the Year Awards Exhibition | 12.2007
100 % Design, 100 % Futures, London | curator Tom Dixon | 09.2007
Salone Internationale Del Mobile, Salone Satellite, Milan | curator Marva Griffin | 04.2007
2005 Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Young Architect of the year Award Exhibition, Egypt | 05.2005
Selected Clients
The Wooster Group | The Performing Garage | New York
The Delfina Foundation | London
The Andermatt Swiss Alps | Switzerland
Moroso | Italy
The American University in Cairo | Egypt
Orascom Development Holding ODH | Egypt
Orascom Hotels & Developments | Egypt
Solidere International Limited | Lebanon
SODIC Six of October Development & Investment Co. | Egypt
Citadel Capital - QALAA HOLDINGS | Egypt
Abercrombie & Kent | Egypt
Samcrete | Egypt
El Dar Group | Egypt
Ministry of trade and Industry | Egypt
Palm Hills Developments | Egypt
Books
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Undeterred: The Six Success Habits of Women in Emerging Economies | 2015 | Rania Anderson | USA.
Architecture is Life | 2013 | Aga Khan Award for Architecture | Mohsen Mostafavi | Lars Muller Publishers |
Germany
ArchVision Prize | 2013 | Woman & Architecture | Italcementi Group | Italy.
55 Bars | 2013 | High Design Publications | China.
Bars! Architectural Hightech Bars & Clubs | 2012 | Monsa Publications | Spain.
2A Architecture & Art | 2011 | Woman’s Voices in Architecture & Design in the Middle East | Homa Farjadi |
UAE.
Atlas Architectures of the 21st Century, Africa & Middle East | 2011 | Luis Galiano | Fundacion BBVA | Spain.
Winning Shopping Center Designs | 2011 | 35th Edition ICSC VIVA Awards | USA.
Top 50 Beautiful Homes | 2011 | Design Media Publishing Limited | UK.
Atlas of World Interior Design | 2010 | Braun | Germany.
Interior Design Review Vol. 14 | 2010 | Andrew Martin | UK.
Egyptian Homes | 2010 | Dar El-Shorouk | Egypt.
The Independent Design Guide | 2009 | Laura Houseley | Thames & Hudson | UK.
30*3 International Design Book | 2009 | China.
Interior Design Review Vol. 9 | 2009 | Andrew Martin | UK.
Press
MADA Masr | 10.2016 | Shahira Fahmy Architects in Dubai Design week 2016
Cairo Observer | 10.2016 | Shahira Fahmy Architects Profile and works
L’Officiel special design 1000 modeles | 1.2015 | Shahira Fahmy table for Moroso.
Wallpaper magazine, UK | 4.2015 | Shahira Fahmy products, stools, and cups.
Architectural Record, USA | 8.2014 | Delfina Foundation, Studio Octopi and Shahira Fahmy Architects
Financial Times, UK | 4.2014 | Moroso Table series
The Architectural Review, UK | 2013
Wallpaper magazine, UK | 1.2014 | Studio Octopi and Shahira Fahmy design the new Delfina Foundation in
London
Frame Magazine, UK | 2.2014 | Delfina Foundation by Studio Octopi and Shahira Fahmy Architects
Wallpaper Magazine | 11.2013 | Travelling Show: Egypt
New York Times T magazine | 10.2012 | London Underground-Cultural Exchange
The Architects’ Journal | 7.2012 | Delfina Foundation Winner Announced: Studio Octopi & Shahira Fahmy
Architects to double size of arts & Culture Foundation Headquarters
World Architecture News | 7.2012 | Cairo & London duo to Expand: Delfina Foundation Base near Buckingham
Palace
Culture 24 | 7.2012 | Delfina Foundation Announces Winners
Artlyst | 7.2012 | Delfina Foundation Announces Shahira Fahmy Architects & Studio Octopi Competition
Winners |UK
Brownbook | 7.2012 | An Urban Guide to the Middle East
Monacle web | 7.2012 | Vision of the Egyptian Home
Domus, web | 6.2012 | HOME in London
Corriere Della Sera | 4.2012 | Paesi in Ascesa: Countries on the Rise | Italy
AR The Architectural Review | 2.2012 | View from Cairo | UK
DE Design Exchange Magazine | 8.2011 | Summer Edition
Klimat Magazine, Web | 12.2011 | State of Design: Discussion with Key Figures in Egypt’s Design Community
Wettewerbe Aktuell Journal, Switzerland | 11.2011 | Tourismusresort CH-Andermatt
Design Exchange Magazine | 7.2011 | Public & Civic Spaces in the Arab World
Phaidon, web | 7.2011 | The Architects Building the Arab Future | UK
DE Design Exchange Magazine | 2011 | Summer Edition | UK
Konsept Projeler | 3.2011 | Elit Yapilarn Dergisi, Green Architecture | Turkey
Arredamento Mimarlik, Turkey | 3.2011 | Misr’da Bir Mimar: Shahira Fahmy
DDN Design Diffusion News | 10.2010 | L’Egitto Muove l Suoi Passi | Italy
Vogue Italia | 8.2010 | Design Talks | Visions of Cairo
Inside the Middle East on CNN web | 6.2010 | Egypt, the New Global Style Capital?
Wallpaper Magazine | 6.2010 | Fair Report: New Showcase +20 Egypt Design Cairo
Design Italia | 6.2010 | Events+20 Egypt Design
The Daily News Egypt | 6.2010 | Shahira Fahmy: Mashrabeya Magic
Today’s Zaman | 4.2010 | Shahira Fahmy to Speak at ARKIMEET Conference | Turkey
Wallpaper Magazine | 12.2009 | Nile Style,Tamarai Cairo
Interior Design Magazine | 12.2009 | Innovative Illumination: Tamarai
Grazia Magazine, UAE | 6.2009 | Party: Tamarai
London Times | 5.2009 | Tamarai Bar & Lounge
MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards | 4.2009 | Residential Commended-Block 36
Gulf Magazine | 3.2009 | Inside and Out
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Frame Magazine, Netherlands | 4.2008
Canvas Magazine, UAE | 1.2008 | Going Global: Shahira Fahmy
Hinge Magazine, Hong Kong | 1.2008
Slovakia and Real Estate, Slovakia | 2007
Interior Design Magazine, USA |11.2007 | Future Furniture
Alef Magazine, Lebanon | 11.2007
Gulf Interior Magazine, UAE | 2007
Financial Times | 4.2007 | Weekend Edition: House & Home | First Timers and Fringe Benefits
Videos | films
Shahira Fahmy's @Artofchange21 mask is at 2016,Quito. #Habitat3 pic.twitter.com/bL194bEj3U
https://mobile.twitter.com/UNEP/status/788892603819450368/photo/1
Shahira Fahmy Profile, Loeb Fellow 2015 | Harvard GSD
http://blogs.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb-fellows/loeb-video-profile-shahira-fahmy/
Aga Khan Program Lecture: Diane Singerman, "Architecture and the Territory: Models of Scholarship, in
conversation with Shahira Fahmy Loeb Fellow15, at Harvard GSD spring 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEfWI95mpBw
Julie Mehretu with Shahira Fahmy, Mario Gooden, and Mabel Wilson, Columbia University GSAPP 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl1r46itr8U
Arab Women in Architecture, Documentary on the experiences, challenges, and achievements of Arab
women architects | 2014 | the Omrania CSBE | Jordan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsi3f93bm8I
Moroso in conversation with Shahira Fahmy | 2014 | Milan.
http://www.moroso.it/relations-cat/interview-shahira-hamed-fahmi/?lang=en
World Architecture Festival director Paul Finch talks about Design and Geography in conversation with Shahira
Fahmy at Asia Design Forum's Design Roulette in London on April 25, 2014, at the Architectural Association in
London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcZNRcgXGeI
Presentation by Shahira Fahmy (Shahira Fahmy Architects) on October 5th, 2013 at the Columbia Global
Centers | Middle East in Amman | GSAPP as part of the Architecture and Representation symposium with
Senan Abdelqader, Nora Akawi, Amale Andraos, Makram El Kadi, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Shahira Fahmy, Ahmad
Humeid, and Bernard Khoury. Fall 2013.
https://vimeo.com/84850763
BBC Arabic, UK | 9.2013 | The Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winners | Documentary
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/multimedia/2013/09/130909_agha_arcitecture_awards.shtml
Megawra: Built Environment Collective | 2012 | What a building wants to be, a short educational documentary
film | Egypt.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr5mdbhx8-0
Shahira Fahmy Associates | 2012 | Kurian Ghoting | Germany. https://vimeo.com/49913235
Delfina Foundation | 2012 | Studio Octopi | London. https://vimeo.com/53152850
Radio Fm4.ORF | 9.2013 | The Aga Khan Award for Architecture | Austria.
BBC Arabic | 7.2012 | Home in the Arab world | Exhibition at the Mosaic Room | UK.
Monacle 24 | 7.2012 | The Curator | Culture 24 Radio Program: Vision of the Egyptian Home | UK.
Languages
Arabic, French and English.
	
  
	
  
	
  
	
  

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  • 1.   1 SHAHIRA FAHMY FOUNDER | PRINCIPAL SHAHIRA FAHMY ARCHITECTS SFA 10 GEZIRET EL ARAB STREET, MOHANDESSIN, CAIRO, EGYPT 487 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 10014, US C +1 347 327 8762 | +2 0122 218 9039 SHAHIRA.FAHMY@SFAHMY.COM Shahira Fahmy is an architect, urbanist and creative researcher. She is the founder of Shahira Fahmy Architects SFA, an architecture and urbanism practice established in Cairo, Egypt (2005) with focus on the business and intelligence of developing cities. Fahmy has built projects in the Middle East, London, and Europe, and has been hailed by Phaidon as one of the “Architects building the Arab future” (2011). Fahmy’s work has been published in the Financial Times, the Architectural Record, the Architectural Review, the New York times T magazines, Frame, and Wallpaper, among others. Her most recent projects include: the restoration and recreation of an experimental arts hall, the Wooster Group, a theatre company rooted in Soho since the 70’s, New York (2015); the expansion of the Delfina foundation in London, to be the largest provider of international residencies in the city, promoting and forging artistic collaborations (2014); the master plan of ‘Andermatt Swiss Alps’ project phase III, a geological transformation processes- a historical military operation terrain metamorphosis to a residential and ski resort-retaining the memory and initiating a regeneration of a new sources of income to the village (completion in 2018); the table series for Moroso titled: Mashrabeya (2015); and most recently Fahmy is among 21 entrepreneurs from around the world, invited by the UNEP to ‘the Mask Architects Project’, Launched at Habitat III, in Quito, Ecuador (2016), and the Climate Change Conference in Marrakech COP22 (2016). Born and raised in Cairo, Fahmy studied architecture at the University of Cairo and later obtained a post-professional degree at Harvard University Graduate School of Design (LOEB 2015) with her research on rapid urbanization and Mapping. She is a two-time recipient of Harvard University’s post- doc fellowships for her prescient work exploring the relationships between urbanism, politics, and human rights: from the Berkman Klein Center at the Law School (2016), and the W.E.B Du Bois research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2016). Fahmy taught at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, in New York (2014). She has acted as a speaker and visiting critic at venues such as Harvard University, MIT, Yale University, Columbia University GSAPP, Cooper Union, City College of New York, the Architectural Association AA in London, the Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA, Aga Khan Award for Architecture AKAA, and the American Chamber of Commerce AMCHAM. She serves as a nominator and a reviewer for both awards: the Aga Khan Award for Architecture AKAA and the Jameel Prize for contemporary art and design established by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Fahmy also served as a member of the board for the International Community of the Red Cross ICRS, Egypt (2012). Fahmy is fluent in French, English and Arabic, and she splits her time between New York, Paris, and Cairo
  • 2.   2 Education | Teaching *74 Egypt 16 Berkman Klein Fellow at The Berkman Center for Internet and Society, at Harvard University, Law School. W.E.B Du Bois Fellow at The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, at Harvard University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. 15 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, The Graduate School of Design. 14 Adjunct Assistant Professor At Columbia University, the Graduate school of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. 13 Technical Project Reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 12th Cycle 2013. 97-07 Assistant Professor, Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture Department. 04 M. Sc. in Architecture Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. 97 B. Sc. in Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. Class 1997, Valedictorian Awarded the Theory and History of Architecture Prize | Distinction Awarded the Structural Theories Prize | Distinction Since 12 Board Member of the International Community of the Red Cross ICRS, Egypt. Since 12 Associate Member of the Society of Egyptian Architects with International Union of Architects Since 99 Member of Ahmed Bahaa Eldin Friends Association, social-benefit NGO, Egypt. Since 98 Member of Egyptian Earth Construction Association EESA, social-benefit NGO, Egypt. Since 97 Member Egyptian Engineering Syndicate. Selected Experience 2016 Selected among 21 entrepreneurs from 12 countries by the UNEP United Nations Environment Program to be a member of the “Masked Architects Project” to be launched at Habitat III, International event dedicated to housing and sustainable urban development, in Quito, Ecuador, 2016. As well as the climate Change conference in Marrakech (COP22) 2016. This project is part of UNEP and Art of change 21. This international design event is an opportunity to identify, nurture and promote projects that offer tangible evidence of how design can improve lives, within the ecological context. This is not the first time Fahmy has contributed to draw awareness on environmental challenges, in 2007 she was the winner of a furniture competition launched to Katrina aftermath using recycling materials, published in Interior Design Magazine in New York 70th issue, 2007; and most recently her series of Tables for Moroso titled Mashrabeya is another exporation in the recycling materials especially wood (2015). 2015 Nominator for the Jameel Prize 2016, an international award for contemporary art and design. The Prize, worth £25,000, was established by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London 2014 Fahmy’s Advanced Design Studio at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation GSAPP, focused on exploring ‘sites of contestations’ in two cities: Istanbul and Cairo, specifically focusing on "micro sites" and their "macro networks" to introduce architectural interventions at multiple scales. The main objective of the studio is to invent spatial strategies that challenge and re-imagine the power struggles that are currently being played out in both cities, while identifying echoes between these two cities and generate strategies that will be tested at varying scales.
  • 3.   3 2013 Technical project reviewer for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 12th Cycle 2013 Visiting and reviewing the shortlisted projects on site, and advising the master Jury on the final decision and the Proposed apportionment of credit and prize funds, the Award sum of 1,000,000 USD. The outcome of the process was published in: “Architecture is Life” Aga Khan Award for Architecture book, edited by Mohsen Mostafavi, published by Lars Muller Publishers, Germany. 05-- Shahira Fahmy Architects The overarching aim of SFA projects is to bridge critical gaps in infrastructure and urban development by creating coherent networks and global exchanges that work for people. The scope of SFA is not limited to urban, and architecture yet it experiment with all others mediums of interventions product design among other things, and explores all social and cultural possibilities that contribute to urbanism. Selected completed projects: the Delfina foundation, London 2014; the Ahmed Bahaa El Din Culutre Center, Assyuit, Egypt 2013; the Sodic Allegria compound, Cairo, Egypt 2014-2018; the Westown city for Sodic and Solidere, Cairo, Egypt (2011); the American University in Cairo: the Malak Gabr Theater, the Moataz El Alfi Hall, the faculty offices and facilities, 2005-2008; the Designopolis: Egypt’s first Design center, 2014; and the E2 Industrial park, in west of Cairo, for Samcrete developments (2011); among others. Selected work in progress: the Wooster Group, the Performing Garage in Soho, New York 2015; the Andermatt planning and architecture phase three master plan, Swiss Alps, Switzerland, in progress (2011-2018). 99-03 Architect at Dar El Handasah, Shair and Partners, Cairo, Egypt. The international acclaimed Dar Group, a multi-disciplinary firm working globally on infrastructure projects, Fahmy led the design and development team, coordinating a diverse global network of stakeholders and experts collaborators (involving -including Perkins + Will, among others), on numerous projects in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Among these projects were the Dubai Airport, the New Cairo International airport, the Yemen airport, Angola projects, and the Makkah expansion plan, among others. 94-98 Community Design Collaborative, Abdel Halim Ibrahim, Cairo, Egypt. Fahmy began here early practice as a surveyor -mapping of Old Islamic Cairo project -as preparation work for the rehabilitation process, and the Azhar Park by the Aga Khan Foundation. Prizes | Awards 2016 Nominated for Aga Khan Award for Architecture | Designopolis project | Cairo, Egypt. 2013 International Mimar Sinan Prize, by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul and the Union of Mediterranean Architects within the MED 21 Programme promoted by Osservatorio del Mediterraneo of Rome | Winner. ArchiVision International Award by Italcementi Group, Italy, Woman-Architecture | Shortlisted | Profile. ArchiVision International Award by Italcementi Group, Italy, Woman-Architecture | commended | A House ArchiVision International Award by Italcementi Group, Italy, Woman-Architecture | Shortlisted | Designopolis project 2012 Aga Khan Award for Architecture | nominated | Ahmed Bahaa El Din Culture Center in Assyuit, Egypt. 2011 Abu Dhabi Cityscape Awards, UAE | Residential Future | Shortlisted | HK House 2010 Green GOOD DESIGN Award | The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum | Winner | Block 36 World Architecture Community Awards | 20+10+X Architecture Awards 6th Cycle | Winner | Block 36 World Architecture News Awards | Education Sector | mentioned | The American University in Cairo Theater interior design. 2009 World Architecture Festival, Barcelona | Future Residential | Shortlisted | Block 36 Dubai Cityscape Award, UAE | Residential Future | Shortlisted | Block 36 MIPIM Architectural Review magazine | Future Project Awards | commended | Block 36 2008 Traffic Design Award, Dubai UAE | Shortlisted | Inside Outside Tea Cup
  • 4.   4 Traffic Design Award, Dubai UAE | Shortlisted | Rubber and Sticks 2007 The Leaf Young Architect of the Year Awards | Finalist | House on the outskirts of Cairo The Leaf Young Architect of the Year Awards | Finalist | House with a pyramids view Interior Design Magazine USA | Katrina Future Furniture Awards | Winner | Tik and Tak stools 2005 Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Young Architect of the year Award | Winner | House on the outskirts of Cairo 2000 Medina Design Excellence Awards | Juror Ingo Maurer | Frist Prize | the Turban Floor Lamp Competitions 2012 Delfina Foundation Architecture Competition, London, UK | with Studio Octopi | Winner | Completed 2011 Andermatt Swiss Alps Planning and Architecture Competition, Aldorf, Switzerland | Winner | due 2018 Juror | Guest Critic 2013-16 Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Andres Jaque Studio Harvard Graduate School of Design | Inaki Abalos Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning | Azra Aksamija Studio Yale University, School of Architecture | David Adjaye Studio Cooper Union, School of Art. City College of New York, the Graduate Urban Design Program | Micheal Sorkins Urban Planning Studio. Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Real Estate and Planning Studio. Harvard GSD | New Geographies Lab: Territorial Tropes, midterm review | Hashim Sarkis Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Amale Andraos Studio Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Urban Planning Studio The Third Omrania | Center for the Study of the Built Environment | juror The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013, the 12th cycle | Technical Project reviewer. 2010 New York Institute of Technology | student projects final review | juror. Lectures | Talks 2016 The Economic Times ACETECH - Asia’s largest exhibition on Architecture, Design, Interior products and building Materials, Mumbai, India. 2015 Fall Colloquium, at Barker Center, Harvard University FAS | 10.2015 Aga Khan Program Lecture: by Diane Singerman, with Shahira Fahmy | Harvard GSD | 01.2015 2014 The Harvard – MIT Fellowships Ignite event | Neiman Foundation for journalism | speaker | 10.2014 Cooper Gallery | Extraordinary City: The Kingelez Building |Shahira Fahmy and Justin Lee | 12.2014 Architectural Association School of Architecture London | geography and design | Paul Finch | 4.2014 Columbia University GSAPP | Divergent Lines, Emergent Spaces | Mabel Wilson, Julie Mehretu, 4.2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning | Workshop | 02.2014 2013 Harvard Graduate School of Design | Inaki Abalos studio | 12.2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Architecture + Planning | Azra Aksamija | 12.2013 Yale University, School of Architecture | David Adjaye studio | 12.2013 Cooper Union, School of Art | 12.2013 City College of New York, the Graduate Urban Design Program | Micheal Sorkins | 12.2013 Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation | Amale Andraos | 10.2013 Arkimeet | Architects meet in Istanbul | Turkey | Gokhan Karakus moderator | 10.2013 Columbia University School of Architecture Planning and Preservation | Studio X Amman Lab | 10.2013 The Third Omrania | Center for the Study of the Built Environment | Jordan | 9.2013 The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL | The Altas of the Unbuilt World | British Council | 06.2013 Medibat Salon Mediterranean du Batiment, Sfax, Tunis | 03.2013 2012 City Debates Conference, American University of Beirut | Re-conceptualising Boundaries | 05.2013
  • 5.   5 American University of Beirut | Shahira Fahmy Architects Profile: The In-Between Space | 04.2013 American University in Cairo | Closing Ceremony of Design for the Streets Student Competition | 04.2013 Salone Satellite 15th Anniversary | Salone Internationale Del Mobile, Milan | 04.2013 2011 Royal Institute of British Architects RIBA | Public and Civic Spaces in the Arab World | 06.2013 The Harvard Arab Alumni Association | 6th Annual Arab World Conference, Syria | Urban Panel | 04.2013 2010 Arkitera, The 25th Arkimeet | University Bahcesehir, Istanbul | Shahira Fahmy Architects Profile | 04.2010 Cairo University, Faculty of Engineering, Architecture Departement, Post Graduate Degree | 02.2010 Exhibitions 2016 The Climate Change Conference COP22 in Marrakech | November 2016 Habitat III, housing | Quito, Ecuador | October 2016 Dubai Design Week | Cairo Now: City incomplete | October 2016 Moroso, Design week, New York | 05.2016 2015 Moroso, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy | 04.2014 2013 Altas of the Unbuilt World | The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL | London Architectural Festival | 06.2013 2012 The Home in the Arab World | The Mosaic Rooms, A. M. Quattan Foundation | 06.2012 2011 Andermatt Swiss Alps, Aldorf, Canton Uri, Switzerland | 12.2011 Green Good Design Award | The European Center for Architecture | Athens, Greece | 04.2011 Abu Dhabi Cityscape, UAE | shortlisted project Awards Exhibition | 04.2011 2010 +20 Egypt Design | Curator Paola Navona | 06.2010 2009 World Architecture Festival, Barcelona | 11.2010 Dubai Cityscape, UAE | shortlisted project Awards Exhibition | 09.2010 Mipim Architectural Review Magazine | Cannes, France | 03.2009 2008 Dubai Cityscape, UAE | Block 36 project | 10.2008 Traffic Design Competition Exhibition | Dubai, UAE | 11.2008 Furnex Egyptian International Furniture and Furnishing Trade Fair | Cairo, Egypt | 11.2008 2007 The Leaf Young Architect of the Year Awards Exhibition | 12.2007 100 % Design, 100 % Futures, London | curator Tom Dixon | 09.2007 Salone Internationale Del Mobile, Salone Satellite, Milan | curator Marva Griffin | 04.2007 2005 Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Young Architect of the year Award Exhibition, Egypt | 05.2005 Selected Clients The Wooster Group | The Performing Garage | New York The Delfina Foundation | London The Andermatt Swiss Alps | Switzerland Moroso | Italy The American University in Cairo | Egypt Orascom Development Holding ODH | Egypt Orascom Hotels & Developments | Egypt Solidere International Limited | Lebanon SODIC Six of October Development & Investment Co. | Egypt Citadel Capital - QALAA HOLDINGS | Egypt Abercrombie & Kent | Egypt Samcrete | Egypt El Dar Group | Egypt Ministry of trade and Industry | Egypt Palm Hills Developments | Egypt Books
  • 6.   6 Undeterred: The Six Success Habits of Women in Emerging Economies | 2015 | Rania Anderson | USA. Architecture is Life | 2013 | Aga Khan Award for Architecture | Mohsen Mostafavi | Lars Muller Publishers | Germany ArchVision Prize | 2013 | Woman & Architecture | Italcementi Group | Italy. 55 Bars | 2013 | High Design Publications | China. Bars! Architectural Hightech Bars & Clubs | 2012 | Monsa Publications | Spain. 2A Architecture & Art | 2011 | Woman’s Voices in Architecture & Design in the Middle East | Homa Farjadi | UAE. Atlas Architectures of the 21st Century, Africa & Middle East | 2011 | Luis Galiano | Fundacion BBVA | Spain. Winning Shopping Center Designs | 2011 | 35th Edition ICSC VIVA Awards | USA. Top 50 Beautiful Homes | 2011 | Design Media Publishing Limited | UK. Atlas of World Interior Design | 2010 | Braun | Germany. Interior Design Review Vol. 14 | 2010 | Andrew Martin | UK. Egyptian Homes | 2010 | Dar El-Shorouk | Egypt. The Independent Design Guide | 2009 | Laura Houseley | Thames & Hudson | UK. 30*3 International Design Book | 2009 | China. Interior Design Review Vol. 9 | 2009 | Andrew Martin | UK. Press MADA Masr | 10.2016 | Shahira Fahmy Architects in Dubai Design week 2016 Cairo Observer | 10.2016 | Shahira Fahmy Architects Profile and works L’Officiel special design 1000 modeles | 1.2015 | Shahira Fahmy table for Moroso. Wallpaper magazine, UK | 4.2015 | Shahira Fahmy products, stools, and cups. Architectural Record, USA | 8.2014 | Delfina Foundation, Studio Octopi and Shahira Fahmy Architects Financial Times, UK | 4.2014 | Moroso Table series The Architectural Review, UK | 2013 Wallpaper magazine, UK | 1.2014 | Studio Octopi and Shahira Fahmy design the new Delfina Foundation in London Frame Magazine, UK | 2.2014 | Delfina Foundation by Studio Octopi and Shahira Fahmy Architects Wallpaper Magazine | 11.2013 | Travelling Show: Egypt New York Times T magazine | 10.2012 | London Underground-Cultural Exchange The Architects’ Journal | 7.2012 | Delfina Foundation Winner Announced: Studio Octopi & Shahira Fahmy Architects to double size of arts & Culture Foundation Headquarters World Architecture News | 7.2012 | Cairo & London duo to Expand: Delfina Foundation Base near Buckingham Palace Culture 24 | 7.2012 | Delfina Foundation Announces Winners Artlyst | 7.2012 | Delfina Foundation Announces Shahira Fahmy Architects & Studio Octopi Competition Winners |UK Brownbook | 7.2012 | An Urban Guide to the Middle East Monacle web | 7.2012 | Vision of the Egyptian Home Domus, web | 6.2012 | HOME in London Corriere Della Sera | 4.2012 | Paesi in Ascesa: Countries on the Rise | Italy AR The Architectural Review | 2.2012 | View from Cairo | UK DE Design Exchange Magazine | 8.2011 | Summer Edition Klimat Magazine, Web | 12.2011 | State of Design: Discussion with Key Figures in Egypt’s Design Community Wettewerbe Aktuell Journal, Switzerland | 11.2011 | Tourismusresort CH-Andermatt Design Exchange Magazine | 7.2011 | Public & Civic Spaces in the Arab World Phaidon, web | 7.2011 | The Architects Building the Arab Future | UK DE Design Exchange Magazine | 2011 | Summer Edition | UK Konsept Projeler | 3.2011 | Elit Yapilarn Dergisi, Green Architecture | Turkey Arredamento Mimarlik, Turkey | 3.2011 | Misr’da Bir Mimar: Shahira Fahmy DDN Design Diffusion News | 10.2010 | L’Egitto Muove l Suoi Passi | Italy Vogue Italia | 8.2010 | Design Talks | Visions of Cairo Inside the Middle East on CNN web | 6.2010 | Egypt, the New Global Style Capital? Wallpaper Magazine | 6.2010 | Fair Report: New Showcase +20 Egypt Design Cairo Design Italia | 6.2010 | Events+20 Egypt Design The Daily News Egypt | 6.2010 | Shahira Fahmy: Mashrabeya Magic Today’s Zaman | 4.2010 | Shahira Fahmy to Speak at ARKIMEET Conference | Turkey Wallpaper Magazine | 12.2009 | Nile Style,Tamarai Cairo Interior Design Magazine | 12.2009 | Innovative Illumination: Tamarai Grazia Magazine, UAE | 6.2009 | Party: Tamarai London Times | 5.2009 | Tamarai Bar & Lounge MIPIM Architectural Review Future Project Awards | 4.2009 | Residential Commended-Block 36 Gulf Magazine | 3.2009 | Inside and Out
  • 7.   7 Frame Magazine, Netherlands | 4.2008 Canvas Magazine, UAE | 1.2008 | Going Global: Shahira Fahmy Hinge Magazine, Hong Kong | 1.2008 Slovakia and Real Estate, Slovakia | 2007 Interior Design Magazine, USA |11.2007 | Future Furniture Alef Magazine, Lebanon | 11.2007 Gulf Interior Magazine, UAE | 2007 Financial Times | 4.2007 | Weekend Edition: House & Home | First Timers and Fringe Benefits Videos | films Shahira Fahmy's @Artofchange21 mask is at 2016,Quito. #Habitat3 pic.twitter.com/bL194bEj3U https://mobile.twitter.com/UNEP/status/788892603819450368/photo/1 Shahira Fahmy Profile, Loeb Fellow 2015 | Harvard GSD http://blogs.gsd.harvard.edu/loeb-fellows/loeb-video-profile-shahira-fahmy/ Aga Khan Program Lecture: Diane Singerman, "Architecture and the Territory: Models of Scholarship, in conversation with Shahira Fahmy Loeb Fellow15, at Harvard GSD spring 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEfWI95mpBw Julie Mehretu with Shahira Fahmy, Mario Gooden, and Mabel Wilson, Columbia University GSAPP 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl1r46itr8U Arab Women in Architecture, Documentary on the experiences, challenges, and achievements of Arab women architects | 2014 | the Omrania CSBE | Jordan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsi3f93bm8I Moroso in conversation with Shahira Fahmy | 2014 | Milan. http://www.moroso.it/relations-cat/interview-shahira-hamed-fahmi/?lang=en World Architecture Festival director Paul Finch talks about Design and Geography in conversation with Shahira Fahmy at Asia Design Forum's Design Roulette in London on April 25, 2014, at the Architectural Association in London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcZNRcgXGeI Presentation by Shahira Fahmy (Shahira Fahmy Architects) on October 5th, 2013 at the Columbia Global Centers | Middle East in Amman | GSAPP as part of the Architecture and Representation symposium with Senan Abdelqader, Nora Akawi, Amale Andraos, Makram El Kadi, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Shahira Fahmy, Ahmad Humeid, and Bernard Khoury. Fall 2013. https://vimeo.com/84850763 BBC Arabic, UK | 9.2013 | The Aga Khan Award for Architecture Winners | Documentary http://www.bbc.co.uk/arabic/multimedia/2013/09/130909_agha_arcitecture_awards.shtml Megawra: Built Environment Collective | 2012 | What a building wants to be, a short educational documentary film | Egypt.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr5mdbhx8-0 Shahira Fahmy Associates | 2012 | Kurian Ghoting | Germany. https://vimeo.com/49913235 Delfina Foundation | 2012 | Studio Octopi | London. https://vimeo.com/53152850 Radio Fm4.ORF | 9.2013 | The Aga Khan Award for Architecture | Austria. BBC Arabic | 7.2012 | Home in the Arab world | Exhibition at the Mosaic Room | UK. Monacle 24 | 7.2012 | The Curator | Culture 24 Radio Program: Vision of the Egyptian Home | UK. Languages Arabic, French and English.