Currently based in Edinburgh as a part two architectural assistant from Toronto and Baghdad, I moved to Glasgow at the age of 17 to pursue architectural education at the University of Strathclyde. As of 2022, I hold a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design and am a RIBA Silver Medal 2022 nominee, EU Mies Young Talent Award nominee, Final Year GIA Commendation Award recipient and the City of Glasgow Eimear Kelt Medal for Architecture 2022 recipient.
An investigation on Beirut’s warehouse explosion of August 2020 has reignited past civil war tension. Beirut: A Green Archipelago is a hope-driven urban and architectural intervention that aims to challenge society’s misconceptions, set the foundation of social reformation, and empower the citizens through the consolidation of the city’s religious communities. Challenging the demarcation border’s sociohistorical context, the project intervenes in the form of monuments of reimagined typologies dedicated to justice, remembrance, education, meditation, and expression. These monuments explore and challenge the conventional public institutes within Beirut and implement prototype typologies sympathetic to the city’s identity whilst ‘housing’ emerging social practices.
