Mohamed Elshahed is a curator and architectural historian focusing on investigating the intersections of architecture, film, cities, design and material culture. His work spans the 20th century to the present in Egypt, the Arab World and the 'Global South'. Elshahed is the author of Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide, the first substantive survey of modern architecture in Egypt’s capital spanning 226 sites. He is the curator of the British Museum’s Modern Egypt Project and Egypt’s winning pavilion, Modernist Indignation, at the 2018 London Design Biennale. In 2011, Elshahed founded Cairobserver to stimulate public debates around issues of architecture, heritage and urbanism in the region.
