Basma Hamdy is a research-based designer, author and educator producing work that bridges historical, political and social issues with archival, documentarian, participatory, and critical mechanisms. She is co-author of the book Walls of Freedom: Street Art of the Egyptian Revolution (2014), as well as co-author of Khatt: Egypt's Calligraphic Landscape (2018). She has been interviewed and featured extensively in international media — such as The New York Times, The National, TRT World, Fast Company, Jadaliyya, Huck, Der Spiegel and Print — and exhibited and spoke at several art and design festivals and conferences around the world.