Fatma Ibrahim Al Sehlawi

Fatma Ibrahim Al Sehlawi, in Arabic: فاطمة إبراهيم السهلاوي, is an architect, artist, curator and businesswoman. She leads The Qatar Blueprint project, a national development programme. She co-curated the exhibition Making Doha 1950-2030 at the National Museum of Qatar, which used archival material, oral history and photographs to explore the architectural history of the city.

Al Sehlawi completed her degree in Architecture from the American University in Sharjah for a duration of seven years, taking a year-long break in order to gain experience in current architecture projects. It is both a shop and a reading room and specialises in works relating to both urbanism and the natural world in western Asia and northern Africa. Designed as a playspace for children, its design was inspired by modernist buildings in the country, including Qatar Post, Qatar University, the Sheraton Grand Doha Resort & Convention Hotel, Qatar National Theatre and the Qatar Ministry of Information building.

Prior to this, in 2017, she collaborated with ceramicist Xeina Malki to recreate Qatari buildings for an exhibition at Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein. The same year that she established her architectural practice Studio Imara.