Shahira Fahmy

Shahira Fahmy (1974) is an Egyptian architect. She is the founder and principal of Shahira Fahmy Architects (SFA), established in 2005 in Cairo, Egypt. Fahmy won the Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 2015, and is a recipient of the Berkman fellowship of Berkman Center for Internet & Society for 2016 at Harvard Law School. Fahmy has also served as an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. In 2005, Fahmy won the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Young Architect Award (2005). Her company has won international competitions in Switzerland and London.