Architect and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the American University in Cairo. Lectured at AAST, Cairo University, and the American University in Cairo since 2003, in several courses between art and architecture. Marei’s interest and publications mainly focus on heritage, the transmission of culture, vernacular architecture, and ancient Egyptian domestic architecture. Her main passion is architectural design, where she worked in several architectural offices; to mention, CDC-Community Design Collaborative – Abdelhalim Ibrahim, and currently she is a Co-founder and partner at BM Consultancy. Besides her academic career and architecture practice, she has lectured and published about architecture and cinema, specifically the work of her late father, art director Salah Marei.