Salma Samar Damluji is an Iraqi British architect, professor, and author. After graduating from the AA School of Architecture, she earned her PhD at the Royal College of Art in London and started her career as a university professor. Her portfolio includes the collaboration with the Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in Cairo, and the role as architectural advisor to the UAE minister Shaykh Sultan bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque and other projects in Abu Dhabi.
In 2008, she established the Daw’an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation in Yemen with other colleagues, where she has been working on earth construction and rehabilitation projects ever since. At the present moment, she is working on reconstruction in Hadramut in partnership with the Cultural Emergency Response (CER), The Netherlands, The Cultural Protection Fund (CPF), The British Council, and ALIPH in Switzerland.