Menna M. El Mahy is a historian of Islamic art and architecture and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo. She earned her MA in 2018, receiving the Nadia Niazi Award for her thesis on the historical and architectural reconstruction of Isṭabl Qawsūn, a major fourteenth-century princely complex in Cairo. She is currently pursuing a PhD at Ghent University, where her research examines the Syro-Egyptian sultanate’s architecture, governance, and frontier dynamics on the Syro-Anatolian borderlands between the mid-thirteenth and early fifteenth centuries. El Mahy has also collaborated with the late Dr. Chahinda Karim on Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon, contributing to the study of Cairo’s architectural and urban history.
