Meet the Author
Fatma Ebrahim Al Sehlawi
(b. 1986, London) A Doha-based architect, urbanist, and beekeeper, Fatma Ebrahim Al Sehlawi is the co-founder of Atlas Bookstore (2015), a transient bookstore specialized in the natural and built environments in the Arab world, and co-founder of Studio Imara (2017), an interdisciplinary design practice. Since 2020, Al Sehlawi has been directing the Qatar Blueprint initiative in the Office of the Chairperson of Qatar Museums, a project planning the cultural activation of Qatar’s eight municipalities. Her work spans multiple areas of research, including the evolution of Qatar’s architecture and urbanism, oral histories relating to bygone settlements, and the productive farmlands and rural regions of Qatar. Her side interests include documenting and growing native flora, seed collection and preservation, and practicing Prophetic Medicine. Al Sehlawi holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Sharjah and an Urban Design Master of Architecture from the Bartlett, University College London.
