Mennatullah Hendawy is an interdisciplinary urban planner. She was a doctoral fellow at the Orient Institue Beirut and received her Ph.D. in Planning Building Environment from TU Berlin in Germany on the visualization of urban planning as imaging of power. Hendawy is co-founder of The Counter-Mapping Laboratory, and Cairo Urban AI, a project working on exploring the potentials of using artificial intelligence to develop just and sustainable cities.