Aya Nasser is interested in understanding elemental geography, the materiality of cities, fragments of space and storytelling the politics of the postcolony. Her research focuses primarily on Cairo and, sometimes, Coventry. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies from the University of Warwick. She is interested in concrete and dust and their intertwining with memorialization, archives, and subjectivity–all in the context of Cairo.