Littman Library Book Talk: Mohamed Elshahed '05 on Cairo Since 1900
Mohamed Elshahed '05 will be speaking about his book Cairo Since 1900 - An Architectural Guide, (AUC Press, 2020), the first substantive survey of modern architecture in Egypt’s capital spanning 226 sites, on Wednesday March 3rd, at noon, Free and open to the public, we hope you can join. The event will be held virtually here.
Mohamed Elshahed is a writer, curator, critic and architectural historian focusing on modernism in Egypt and the Arab World. He holds a Masters from MIT’s Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and a PhD from NYU’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies. His work spans architecture, design and material culture. He is the curator of the British Museum’s Modern Egypt Project and Egypt’s winning pavilion, Modernist Indignation, at the 2018 London Design Biennale. In 2019 Apollo Magazine named him among the 40 under 40 influential thinkers and artists in the Middle East. In 2011 he founded Cairobserver to stimulate public debates around issues of architecture, heritage and urbanism in the region. In Spring 2020 he was the Practitioner-in-Residence at the NYU Kevorkian Center in New York.
He is also the curator of Cairo Modern at the Center for Architecture. The exhibition is currently postponed but will open soon after galleries reopen to the public. You can view some of his work from his residency at NYU here. NJIT students and faculty may access the book here.
