11/25: Mohamad is awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for the Summer 2026 residency period.

10/25: Mohamad presents “Nightrise: Itqan as a Defiant Cosmology” at the American Society for Muslims in Architecture during the ASMA National Conference at the University of Michigan.

10/25: Mohamad publishes “Dreaming: Smuggling Freedom Past Checkpoints” in Timely Reflections on Spatial Justice edited by Rana Abughannam.

10/25: Mohamad presents “Dreaming: Smuggling Freedom Past Checkpoints” at Carleton University for Ozayr Saloojee’s seminar The Imperial Premise of Images.

09/25: Mohamad is selected as a finalist for the Wheelwright Prize at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
(https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2025/08/mauro-marinelli-wins-2025-wheelwright-prize/)

08/25: Mohamad publishes “Laying the Foundation Between Heaven and Earth: Astrology in the Planning of Baghdad and Washington D.C.” coauthored with Jess Myers in Volume Magazine.

07/25: Mohamad receives a Publication Grant from the Graham Foundation Grants to Individuals in support of Nightrise, with Columbia Books on Architecture and the City.
(http://www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/6696-nightrise)

04/25: Mohamad publishes “Purging a Wretched Empire” in The Avery Review.
(https://averyreview.com/issues/71/purging-a-wretched-empire)

04/25: Mohamad presents “Heritage Beyond Imperial Light” at the University of Oregon, with Rana Abughannam.

04/25: Mohamad presents “The Unsleep” at the symposium The Night is Holy, the Night is Treacherous at Harvard Divinity School.

03/25: Mohamad presents “Nightrise: Worldmaking Beyond the Empire of Light” at the American University of Beirut through the Center for Arts and Humanities and the Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture.

02/25: Mohamad presents “Darkness as Memory Justice” at the symposium A Lens Onto Ourselves: Gaza and a Reckoning for Urban Planning hosted by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

01/25: Mohamad publishes “Worlding in the Brightness of Imperial Savagery” in The Funambulist issue 57 titled The Night.
(https://thefunambulist.net/magazine/the-night)