Momen El-Husseiny

Momen El-Husseiny is an assistant architecture and urban design professor at The American University in Cairo (AUC). As a licensed architect since 2003, he has collaborated in the design of several international competitions and projects across the Middle East, including The American University in Cairo's New Cairo Campus (2001-2006), particularly the Performance and Visual Arts Building (PVA) with its park and square. He is a trained ethnographer with a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in Architecture (2007-2015) with a designated emphasis on global metropolitan studies and a minor in anthropology. His dissertation "Compounds of Modernity: National Order and the 'Other' in Egypt (1940-present)" historicizes the formation of compounds from the colonial era till the present neoliberal condition. He lectured at UC Berkeley, the Academy of Arts in San Francisco, and the Arab Academy of Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT). Before joining AUC as a full-time faculty, he was an assistant professor at Cairo University. He was invited for talks at Harvard, Stanford, and the Society of Architectural Historians at the University of Buffalo, New York.