Samia Henni is an architectural historian, exhibition maker and educator. Working through textual and visual strategies, her practice interrogates histories of the built, destroyed and imagined environments—those produced by processes and mechanisms of colonization, forced displacement, nuclear weapons, resource extraction and warfare. Henni is the author of the award-winning book Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (2017, 2022) and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (2024), as well as the editor of War Zones (2018) and Deserts Are Not Empty (2022). Currently, she is an invited Visiting Professor at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich, and the co-chair of the University Seminar “Beyond France” at Columbia University. In 2024, Samia will join the faculty of McGill University’s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture in Montreal.