Jala Makhzoumi

Beirut

Dr Jala Makhzoumi is an Iraqi architect and academic who specializes in landscape design; she taught architecture and landscape at the University of Technology in Baghdad for 15 years. Jala studied architecture in the University of Baghdad from 1971. She received her Master in Environmental Design from Yale University and a PhD in landscape architecture from Sheffield University. Her expertise is in ecological landscape design and planning where she applies a holistic, developmental approach to mediate community needs with ecosystem health, biodiversity protection and landscape heritage conservation. Her professional and academic expertise includes postwar recovery, energy efficient site planning and sustainable urban greening.