Mohamed Gohar is an architect and urban heritage consultant with multidisciplinary experience across Egypt and the Mediterranean. His work sits at the intersection of architecture, culture, heritage, and sustainable urban development, mobilising both tangible and intangible heritage as a tool for more inclusive and resilient cities. He is an independent consultant based between Alexandria and Marseille, collaborating with cultural institutions, universities, and international organisations on research, urban regeneration, and heritage strategy projects. He is also the founder of Description of Alexandria, an initiative dedicated to researching and documenting the city’s urban memory and cultural practices. He holds an MA in Sustainable Heritage Management from the University of Liverpool (Chevening Scholar) and studies in Urban Heritage Strategies at Erasmus University Rotterdam (IHS). Alongside his consultancy and research work, he maintains an artistic and visual practice. His work employs an art-based research (ABR) approach that combines visual documentation (photography, sketching), field notes, and reflexive writing to capture the lived experiences of heritage in cities (namely Alexandria) as a counter-narrative to the Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD). The research method draws on concepts from emotional geography and the idea of a “third place,” focusing on the dynamics of everyday governance, including informal negotiations, as well as on inclusion and exclusion. It also emphasises temporal depth through repeated observations across different seasons, events, and policy changes.