Howayda Al-Harithy is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Department of Architecture and Design (ArD) at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Her research focuses on urban heritage and contemporary interventions in historic cities, which is advanced through her role as the director of the urban recovery platform at the AUB Urban Lab and as a collaborator on the RELIEF project with the Institute for Global Prosperity at University College London. Al-Harithy is widely published with over 50 articles, book chapters, and reports in leading journals and refereed books.