Prof. Alraouf is an architect, urban designer, planner, critic, writer, and professor, with seventy-five years of academic, research and consulting experience. He served as the Head of the Department of Architecture at the University of Science and Arts, and as a Coordinator of the Urban Planning Program at Qatar University. His research interests include museums’ architecture, contemporary Gulf cities, knowledge and creative cities, post-oil urbanism, the creative value of architectural and urban heritage, architectural and urban criticism. Prof. Alraouf has received several regional and international awards in architecture, urban design, teaching and scientific research. Prof. Alraouf has published more than 150 research papers, articles and technical reports in international conferences and periodicals. He has also been invited to give lectures and present his projects and research findings at universities, architectural associations and research center in more than 30 countries including Berkeley, Cambridge, UCL, Howard, Chicago, Leipzig, Malaysia, Seoul, Malaga, American universities in Sharjah, Kuwait, Lebanon, and most of Gulf universities. He is the co-author of several books in Arabic and English and a single author of the following books: Architectural Criticism and its Role in the Development of Contemporary Architecture (2014), From Mecca to Las Vegas: Treatises on Architecture and Holiness (2014), Cities of the Arabs in Their Novels (2016), Critical Essays in Egyptian Architecture (2016), Urban Architectural Blogs (2017) and Knowledge-Based Urban Development in the Middle East.(2018), Square, Revolution and People: The Architectural and Urban Story of Tahrir Square (2019), The Arab City: Challenges of Urbanization in Transforming Societies (2020), Social Transformations in the Arab Gulf States: Identity, Tribe and Development (2021), Architecture, Urbanization and the City in the Post-COVID Era (2022). Prof. Alraouf is Head of Urban Lab and Design Studio (Studio 18), R&D Senior Advisor for the Urban Planning Department in Qatar, a professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Head of the Sustainable Urbanism Unit at the Qatar Green Building Council, and a board member of the International Society of City Planners