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Dina K. Shehayeb, is an associate professor in the Institute of Architecture and Housing, at the Housing and Building National Research Centre {HBRC} in Cairo, Egypt, as well as an adjunct faculty member at the American University in Cairo {AUC} and Modern Sciences and Arts University. She graduated from Cairo University`s Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecure in 1984, and earned her Masters Degree in Architecture from the same university in 1989 focusing on human aspects in neighbourhood design and planning. She got her Ph.D. Degree in Architecture and Environment-Behaviour Studies from University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 1995, where she studied under the supervision of Prof. Emiritus Amos Rapoport. With two decades of interdisciplinary research behind her, she works on bridging the gap, in research and design, between the physical built environment and its socio-psychological and cultural dimensions. Besides her research activity through the HBRC aiming at more culturally appropriate housing policy, she has been practicing as a consultant since 1998 in the field of community-based housing program development and participatory design, through which she worked with the Aga Khan Cultural Services- Egypt for 6 years on the Darb Al-Ahmar neighborhood revitalization project, the Institut de Recherche et Development and local organizations such as the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development and Community Development Services {CDS} Cairo.