Is a history lecturer in Queens College and doctoral candidate in the history department in the City University of New York, the Graduate Center. His current research project focuses on revolutionary temporalities, generational memories and gender in Egypt between 1967 and 2011. He graduated from the political science department in Cairo University and has a Master's degree in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, where he wrote a thesis on the history and memory of banditry and folk outlaws in early 20th-century Egypt.
Amid Cairo’s sweeping urban transformations, marked by demolitions, forced displacements, and the erasure of familiar cityscapes, this workshop examines what it means to archive and document the lived experiences and histories that are under threat of being lost. Here, archiving is not merely a preservation of heritage; it becomes a site of resistance, where the absence and dislocation of memory itself bear witness to the forces of erasure at work. In this context, the workshop will engage the question of how to document not only the visible loss but also the intangible—sensory experiences, emotional attachments, and the subjective landscapes of memory that traditional archives often overlook.