Dena is a scholar of urban politics and the built environment and has conducted research in Palestine, Qatar, and Tunisia. She is currently writing a monograph based on her doctoral research. Tentatively titled City in Revolution: Encounters of People in Regime in Tunis, the work examines how and why key urban sites become consequential for revolution. While at the Middle East Centre, Dena will begin researching indigenous urbanism and futurity in Palestine. This work will build on a previous collective project, Palestine: Spaces and Politics, which provides an open-access bilingual curriculum on Palestine’s built and natural environments. Prior to her PhD, Dena worked in architecture, urban planning, and higher education in New York, London, Palestine, and Doha. She holds a B. Arch from the University of Texas at Austin, an MSc in Urban Development Planning from UCL, and a PhD in Architecture from the University of Cambridge and has taught at LSE, De Montfort University, and the University of Cambridge.