Biography
Ayham Dalal is an architect and urban planner with expertise in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies, Urban Informality, Sustainability and Community-Development. He has a PhD with distinction (summa cum laude) from the Technische Universität Berlin. He was a visiting fellow at the Refugee Studies Center in Oxford University, and at the Collaborative Research Center ‘Re-Figurations of Space’ in Berlin, and a postdoctoral fellow at CNRS, France (University of Poitiers), the French Institute of Research in the Near East (Ifpo), Jordan. His research and artistic practice aim to amplify the voices of marginalized communities by exploring new research and visualisation methods that combine between ethnography, experimental mapping, and architectural visualisation. Currently he serves as a Lecturer and Assistant Professor at the Architecture and Urban Design Department at the German University in Cairo (GUC).
