about mecontact: hadwa.youssef@tkh.edu.eg | hadwa@urbanics.org
An architect, urban specialist, researcher, and academic based in Egypt, with over ten years of experience in teaching architecture and urban planning. Currently a Lecturer¹ and PhD Candidate², my work focuses on land-use and spatial planning, protected-area management, sustainable tourism development, climate resilience, and community-based development.
With a Master’s³
and
Bachelor’s⁴
degrees in Architecture, my practice and research integrate urban and landscape planning, spatial mapping, environmental management, tourism planning, and community engagement, with a particular interest in shaping resilient and sustainable relationships between people, places, and natural landscapes.
[1] Lecturer of Visual Communication
Coventry University - The Knowledge Hub Universities
2022 - present
[2] PhD in Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design
Ain Shams University
2025 - 2028
PhD Topic: Where Saints Walk: Myth, Memory, and Ritual Practices in Egypt
Between Performance and Planning
[3] MSc. in Architectural Engineering
Arab Academy for Science, Technology and
Maritime Transport
2016 - 2023
MSc. Thesis: Acculturation to the Ideals:
Architectural Schools’ Magazines as Sites of
Discourse
[4]
BSc. in Architectural Engineering
Minor in Business Administration
The American University in Cairo
2009 - 2014
BSc. Thesis: The Imaginarium: Child Development
Center at Bulaq el Dakrur