Biography

May al-Ibrashy is a lecturer at the Department of Architecture, the British University in Egypt.

She is a conservation architect who was previously a partner in Hampikian-Ibrashy, an architectural firm that specialized in heritage management. The project presented for Past of the Coming Days related to the Cairo Cemetery Salvage Project, one of the conservation projects planned and implemented by Hampikian-Ibrashy. Al-Ibrashy has published articles on the Cairo cemetery and is currently a core research member of a Getty-UCLA collaborative research project on the Suyuti cemetery in Cairo.

May al-Ibrashy lives and works in Cairo. She holds a PhD from SOAS, University of London and her thesis studied the urban history of the living cemeteries of Cairo from the fourteenth century to the present.

She teaches architectural design, theory, history and conservation and copy-edits books on Islamic art and architecture.

October 2010