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Dr.-Ing. Mennatullah Hendawy is an interdisciplinary urban planner working on the intersections of cities, media, and technology toward equity and sustainability. She is a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) GmbH in Bochum.

Hendawy received her Ph.D. in 2021 from the faculty of Planning Building Environment at TU Berlin in Germany, graded: summa cum laude. In her Ph.D., she explored the mediatization of urban development in Cairo as a local yet global case. In 2015, Hendawy completed an MSc. in Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design from Stuttgart University focusing on urban policies. Hendawy holds a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Engineering from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Department of Urban Planning and Design (class 2012). Hendawy was the principle investigator of the Urban AI MOOC that is part of the African Cities Lab initiative, funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs. Hendawy was also one of the founding members of Cairo Urban AI, a project working on exploring the potential of using artificial intelligence to develop just and sustainable cities.

Earlier she was a fellow at the Fellowship Program Datafication, European Societies of the European New School of Digital Studies at European University Viadrina in Brandenburg, Germany, Orient Institute Beirut. Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, USA, and  the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space in Erkner, Germany.