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ALEXANDRIA’S THIRD PLACES
If I ask you to describe someone in his 50s, would you start telling: he was beautiful when he was 10 years old, very smart and intellectual according to his age? Or you would describe what he looks like know. What could be the reasons for anyone to describe someone only by his childhood or past […]
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ALEXANDRIA’S THIRD PLACES
STORY 01 DINOCRATE Ideas last. Ideas change lives for years and years. Every single time we wander the streets of a pre-planned city, we are experimenting with the dreams of someone else. There is a good dream and there is also an incubus (nightmare). Or maybe both exist in one vision. Is Alexandria a good […]
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Culture
Workshops Conferences Exhibitions Alexandria Today Week Downtown Alexandria October, 2022Read here Alexandrie- Marseille , regards croisés, exhibition French Institute Alexandria October, 2022Read here Forgotten Entrances, exhibition French Institute Alexandria May, 2022Read here Guest Speaker Designing Modernity- a publication initiated by the Goethe-Institut Palestinian Territories and edited by Philipp Oswalt and George ArbidMay, 2022Read here Alexandrie-Marseille Échanges entre deux territoires […]
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Forgotten Entrances, exhibition at the French Institute Alexandria
In the framework of Écrire la Méditerranée Festival at the French Institute of Alexandria. The exhibition Forgotten Entrances was inaugurated on 19th of May 2022. This is a collective exhibition of my drawings/research and the photographs of Léon Dubois. Highlighting observations on Alexandria, and trying to describe the Image of Alexandria in the present time. It is characteristic of […]
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Designing Modernity- a publication initiated by the Goethe-Institut Palestinian Territories and edited by Philipp Oswalt and George Arbid
Guest Speaker under the topic of Protest and Civic engagement on the 7th of May 2022. Talking about rereading the city, offering an alternative narrative of social history and its impact on the built heritage. Designing Modernity: Architecture in the Arab World 1945–1973 is the result of a fascinating investigation by international experts into the […]
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Alexandrie-Marseille: échanges entre deux territoires métropolitains
In the framework of the exchange between the two Mediterranean cities Alexandria and Marseille, this project is an exchange between the students of the architecture department, the faculty of Engineering/ University of Alexandria, and the students of the architecture École nationale supérieure d’architecture de marseille – ENSA•Marseille. The educational objective of this work is to immerse the students in the territory. It’s a form […]
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Details from Alexandria For a long time I have been attached to the past or the past is attached to me. Either way, the past of my city, the ancient Egyptian port city of Alexandria, is something I feel incredibly strongly about. The dramatic and rapid erasure of the rich built heritage of Alexandria has […]
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Conservation strategic study for Al-Hofuf City center, Al AHSA, KSA
This study was for Bina engineering consulting, project copyrights Omran Architects