Ghida Anouti is a writer, artist, and architect. She is interested in narrative-building, visual culture, and acoustemology in relation to the production, reception, and consumption of multisensorial media.
She recently 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. Her research at MIT explores violent acoustic ecologies and experimental videos as archives of the Lebanese Civil War and indexes of urban transformation in Beirut. Through close readings of audiovisual material, she unravels latent philosophies and distills provocations that have percolated in the Arab world for so long.
She is currently a full-time editor and researcher for Professor Nida Sinnokrot at MIT’s Art, Culture, and Technology Program. She has previously conducted research at MIT for Professor Azra Akšamija, the Future Heritage Lab, and the Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism. Prior to her candidature at MIT, Ghida obtained a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut.