Brief info
May El Tabbakh is an architect, interior designer, and heritage specialist based in Alexandria, Egypt, with an international academic and professional profile. She graduated from the German School of Alexandria in 1996 and went on to study architecture at the Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, where she obtained her BSc in the Architecture of Public Buildings in 2002.
In 2008, May was awarded the prestigious British Chevening Scholarship, enabling her to pursue an MSc in Sustainable Heritage at the Bartlett School for the Built Environment, University College London, which she completed in 2009. Her academic and professional interests have since remained deeply rooted in the historic built environment, with a focus on conservation, adaptive reuse, and culturally sensitive design.
May El Tabbakh Architects was founded in Alexandria in 2011. The practice has received international recognition and awards, and May has published several academic papers, book chapters, and professional publications related to heritage, architecture, and urban culture. Between 2013 and 2016, she was annually invited to participate as a UNESCO expert in the programme “Heritage of Modernities in the Arab World.”