Miran Shouman is a conservation architect and urban heritage practitioner specializing in historic urban landscapes, community-based heritage conservation, and participatory regeneration. She recently worked as a Conservation Architect with EQI and the Royal Commission for AlUla (Saudi Arabia), contributing to architectural documentation, condition assessments, and restoration strategies for AlUla Old Town. She is also a Local Coordinator and Rehabilitation Team Member for the Bazar Abbas Recovery Lab in Port Said, an internationally funded urban recovery project supported by the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund and led by Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU Cottbus–Senftenberg).
Since 2016, Miran has been a core member and project manager at Port Said Ala Ademo, supported by international partners including EUNIC, the Goethe-Institut, Tandem Amwaj, and the Danish Institute in Egypt. Her projects include documenting collective memory, safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, and developing participatory heritage education programmes. She has also contributed to academic and research activities as a Teaching Assistant at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport and as a researcher with CLUSTER, focusing on urban transformation, heritage mapping, and the documentation of Port Said’s built environment.