Ghida Anouti is a writer and architect.
Her research explores violent acoustic ecologies and experimental cinema as indices of urban transformation, particularly in postwar Lebanon. Through close readings of audiovisual material, she unravels latent philosophies and distills provocations that have percolated in the Arab world for so long. Her transdisciplinary approach draws from media theory, acoustemology, postcolonial literature, and urbanism to interrogate the historiographical abstraction of violence through image-making and world-building.
She is currently the Trott Distinguished Visiting Professor at Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University. She has previously worked at MIT as a researcher, editor, and filmmaker in the Art, Culture, and Technology Program. She has also conducted research at MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism and the Future Heritage Lab.
Ghida graduated from MIT with a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (SMArchS) in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, specifically in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. Prior to MIT, Ghida obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut.