Yara Sharif is a lecturer at the University of Westminster and co-founder of the Palestine Regeneration Team (PART), a designer-led collective addressing reconstruction, self-build housing, and spatial justice in Middle Eastern contexts.
Her doctoral research (Architecture of Resistance) was awarded the RIBA President’s Research Prize (2013), and she led award-winning collaborations with Riwaq and NG Architects on the Beit Iksa Eco Kitchen and Birzeit regeneration projects.
In November 2023, she co-founded Architects for Gaza with Nasser Golzari, mobilizing design professionals worldwide to collaborate with displaced communities, reimagining home, memory, and the collective future in Gaza through speculative and built environments for everyday life.
