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Mohamed Elshahed
Mohamed Elshahed is Curator of the Modern Egypt Project at the British Museum in London. He teaches in the Department of Architecture at the American University in Cairo. He is the Founding Editor of Cairobserver.com, a web and print platform for architecture and urban culture with a focus on Cairo. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern studies from New York University. He is currently preparing a book, Revolutionary Modernism? Architecture and the Politics of Transition in Egypt, 1936–1967, on architecture and urban planning in Egypt before and after the 1952 coup d’état. Elshahed also holds an MSc in Architectural Studies from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.