Mohamed Elshahed

Mohamed Elshahed is a writer, curator, and critic of architecture, his work extends to design and material culture. He is the author of Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide (AUC Press, 2020) and of Rebellious Things: A History of Modern Egypt in Objects (forthcoming). Mohamed was a 2023 Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington DC. In 2023-2024 he was a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas & Imagination in Paris.