Editors
Editorial Mission
At ArchUp, our editorial mission is to document, archive, critique, and analyze architecture and the built environment with independence and transparency. We do not approach architecture as a stream of images or announcements. We treat every building, city, material, competition, and design decision as part of a wider record that deserves context, verification, and critical reading.
Our work follows architecture across time — from concept and construction to occupation, transformation, preservation, and sometimes disappearance. ArchUp therefore operates not simply as an architectural publication, but as a growing bilingual repository intended for professionals, researchers, students, and the wider public.
Born to enrich Arabic architecture — now global.
Editorial Leadership
ArchUp’s editorial structure separates strategic direction, editorial operations, analytical review, field documentation, research, and visual production. This structure allows individual editors to work within defined areas of responsibility while remaining accountable to a shared editorial framework.
“Architecture deserves more than exposure. It deserves documentation, context, and an independent critical record.”
Editors Online
Ibrahim Fawakherji — Editor-in-Chief
A practicing architect and architectural writer, Ibrahim Fawakherji leads ArchUp’s editorial direction, critical framework, long-form essays, and development as an independent architectural archive. His work focuses on reading architecture beyond visual description by connecting the built environment with culture, economics, technology, memory, behavior, and the systems that shape cities.
Nawaf — Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Nawaf supports the Editor-in-Chief in supervising publication direction, editorial priorities, content coordination, and the consistency of ArchUp’s daily output across its international coverage.
Nasser Ibrahim — Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Nasser oversees editorial operations, contributor coordination, workflow discipline, and the implementation of publishing standards across ArchUp’s distributed editorial network.
Lulwah — Director of Visual Identity & Creative Affairs
Lulwah directs the visual and creative framework of ArchUp, overseeing the relationship between editorial content, visual language, imagery, graphic presentation, and the evolving identity of the platform.
Editorial Coordination & Standards
This unit supports the daily editorial process between submission, review, analytical assessment, categorization, publication, and post-publication documentation.
Mahmoud Sheikh — Editorial Coordinator
Mahmoud coordinates editorial workflow across contributors and publication units, helping maintain continuity between incoming material, editorial review, and publication readiness.
Mona Mohammed — Editorial & Events Coordinator
Mona coordinates selected editorial communications, events coverage, press invitations, and publication-related follow-up between contributors and the wider editorial team.
Munira Safal — Editorial Insight Coordinator
Munira coordinates the application of the ✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight framework, helping ensure that analytical conclusions move beyond summary and address the architectural, economic, social, technical, or institutional questions that the source material leaves unresolved.
Architecture, Research & Field Documentation
ArchUp’s architecture and research contributors document projects, investigate the forces shaping the built environment, follow construction and urban change, and connect contemporary work with wider technical and historical contexts.
Tasnim Abdullah — Research & Global Architectural Content
Tasnim contributes to architectural research, bilingual publishing, and the development of international architectural narratives, with particular attention to connecting scholarly material with accessible editorial documentation.
Bilal El Yahyaoui — Architectural Writer & Projects Correspondent
Bilal follows architectural projects and design developments, contributing reporting and project-based documentation from regional and international contexts.
Mostafa Raafat — Global Architecture News Editor
Mostafa monitors architectural and design developments across international markets, identifying news with lasting documentary or analytical value for the ArchUp archive.
Jenna Al-Saqat — Architecture Student & Content Editor
Jenna contributes architectural content with interests spanning building materials, design culture, competitions, and the relationship between academic architectural knowledge and professional practice.
Qusai Fahad — Field Correspondent
Qusai supports on-site architectural documentation, following buildings, construction activity, exhibitions, and events where direct observation adds information that cannot be obtained from press material alone.
Competitions Editorial Team
The Competitions Editorial Team documents architecture and design competitions from around the world, with particular attention to eligibility, jury transparency, organizers, fees, awards, deadlines, and the information participants need before making an informed decision to enter.
Community & Engagement
Ahmed Zaki — Community Manager & Architectural Editor
Ahmed supports engagement between ArchUp and its wider architectural community while contributing editorial coverage across architecture, design, technology, and emerging forms of creative practice.
Visual Production
Visual production operates under ArchUp’s broader creative direction, supporting editorial graphics, image preparation, visual storytelling, and the consistent presentation of the platform’s archive.
Shan Al- Rasheed — Graphic Designer
Shan contributes graphics, illustrations, visual assets, and supporting design material used across ArchUp’s editorial and digital publishing activities.
Technology & Platform
The technology team maintains the infrastructure required for ArchUp’s publishing, archival accessibility, security, performance, and long-term digital continuity.
Kamiar MK — IT & Tech Specialist
Kamiar supports ArchUp’s technological infrastructure, platform efficiency, technical integrations, and the systems required for reliable digital publishing.
Hani Alama — Server & Technical Support
Hani supports server performance, security, uptime, and the technical stability required to preserve continuous access to the ArchUp archive.
Editorial Independence
ArchUp distinguishes between documentation, authorship, editorial judgment, and commercial communication. Contributors remain responsible for the work published under their names, while all content is subject to ArchUp’s common editorial standards. Publication does not constitute endorsement of a project, architect, company, competition, product, or institution.
The ✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight exists as a separate analytical layer and may question the claims, assumptions, omissions, or conclusions of the article to which it is attached. This principle applies equally to contributors, editorial teams, and the Editor-in-Chief.
Corrections, disclosures, source attribution, image rights, and editorial accountability are governed by the platform’s published Editorial Guidelines.
Want to Contribute to ArchUp?
ArchUp works with architects, designers, researchers, writers, photographers, students, and specialist contributors from different parts of the world. Contributions are assessed according to subject relevance, documentary value, originality, source quality, and compliance with our editorial standards.
For submissions, collaboration, editorial communication, and departmental contacts, please use the ArchUp Contact Page.
MANDATORY: Strict adherence to ArchUp’s publishing, documentation, attribution, and content-integrity standards. Review the full Editorial Guidelines.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
ArchUp accepts contributions from architects, writers, researchers, designers, photographers, students, and others working with the built environment. Submission does not guarantee publication; every contribution is reviewed for relevance, documentary value, source quality, originality, and compliance with ArchUp’s editorial standards.
ArchUp is designed as a long-term architectural archive. Published material is generally retained as part of that record, while corrections, updates, disclosures, or other editorial changes may be added when required.
ArchUp maintains a presence on social platforms, but the platform is built primarily around its own searchable archive, organic discovery, internal content relationships, and long-term access to architectural information.
No. ArchUp originated with a mission to enrich Arabic architectural content and has developed into a bilingual platform serving readers internationally through both English and Arabic publishing.
Some contributors may publish under editorial names rather than personal names. This does not remove editorial accountability: published work remains subject to the same review, correction, attribution, and content-integrity standards.
Digital and AI-assisted tools may support research, classification, translation, verification, or workflow tasks. Editorial judgment, critical interpretation, accountability, and publication decisions remain under human editorial responsibility. ArchUp does not treat automated generation as a substitute for responsible authorship.
ArchUp’s content is produced through a distributed editorial structure that includes architectural writers, researchers, project correspondents, news editors, competition specialists, field contributors, visual teams, and editorial coordinators operating under shared publishing standards.
The ✦ ArchUp Editorial Insight is an independent analytical layer attached to selected ArchUp articles. It is neither a summary nor an endorsement. Its role is to examine what the source material may have omitted, challenge assumptions, introduce wider technical or contextual questions, and strengthen the archival value of the article. No contributor, including the Editor-in-Chief, is exempt from this critical reading.
ArchUp.net — Uniting Ideas, Building an Architectural Record
ArchUp is an independent resource for people interested in architecture, design, cities, construction, research, and the wider built environment. Our objective is not simply to increase the volume of architectural content, but to create an organized and critically readable record that can remain useful after the immediate news cycle has passed.