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Biography

Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture – Design and Built Environment, Beirut Arab University (BAU), where she has taught since 2012, first as a teaching assistant and as a lecturer since 2018. She teaches mainly first-year design fundamentals, alongside execution design for level four, and city and town planning for level three. She is completing her Ph.D. degree at BAU on resilient design studio education in times of crisis, and had an Erasmus+ post-grad exchange program at Sapienza University of Rome (2023–2024). Before joining academia as a full time, she worked as an architect on several projects starting from conceptual design to execution, tender, and shop drawings phases.

Research Interests

- Design studio education in times of crisis - Resilient studio pedagogy - First-year studio teaching - Deign studio Students' engagement pedagogies - Participatory approaches in design studio practices - Cultural sustainability in contemporary Lebanese architecture; shape grammars.

Education & Qualifications

- PhD candidate in Architecture, Beirut Arab University Thesis registered 2023: Establishing a Resilient Model for the Design Studio Education in the Time of Crises: The Multi-layer Case of Lebanon. - Erasmus+ postgraduate exchange, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (2023–2024). - MSc in Architecture, Beirut Arab University (2016). - Bachelor of Architectural Engineering, Beirut Arab University (2012), RIBA Part 1 accredited, ranked fourth in class.

Teaching Areas

- Architectural design fundamentals (visual and physical studies) for first-year students - Design fundamentals studio for design programs - Execution design - City and town planning

Awards & Recognition

Participation in: Chadirji Foundation Award for graduation project (2013). Graduation project selected for the Arab Architects Exhibition (2013).