Fathia Elmenghawi obtained her bachelor degree in Architecture and Urban Planning from University of Tripoli (UT), Libya. She worked in the National Consulting Bureau (NCB) and in other architectural firms where she participated in many important national and local projects in her country Libya. Mrs Elmenghawi was also a member of the Technical Consulting Committee of the Urban Planning Agency, Tripoli. After receiving her MPhil from the University of Liverpool, UK in 2004, Mrs. Elmenghawi worked as a lecturer at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, UT. On October 2016, she obtained her PhD in Urban Systems from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA. Between November 2016 and June 2018, she worked as a Scholar and Research Assistant in United Parks as One - Newark, NJ. USA, as an assistant professor in Urban Placemaking and Management Master’s program, Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY, USA, and as an adjunct professor at Guttman College, CUNY, Manhattan, NY, USA. She has recently joined the Department of Architecture, American University of Ras Al-Khaimah as an assistant professor. Her fields of interest are design and use of space in Muslim traditional buildings, urban design in relation to the creation of outdoor spaces in colonial and post-colonial Tripoli, Libya, and Women and use of public space.

Architecture & Urban Planning

19th-21st Centuries

All Middle East

Urban History, Urban Design, Women's Use Of Public

Arabic (native)

English (advanced)