Noura Al-Sayeh Holtrop is an architect and curator with over 15 years of experience in the cultural development, architectural and planning fields. She has built a number of temporary and permanent architectural installations and interventions and has worked as an architect in Jerusalem, Amsterdam and New York. She is currently advising the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (BACA) on cultural and heritage policies and is responsible for overseeing the planning and implementation of cultural institutions and museums as well as urban rehabilitation strategies. She was the co-curator of Reclaim, Bahrain's first participation at the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010 and the deputy commissioner general of Heatwave Bahrain’s pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, both awarded a Golden Lion for best national participation. She served as the Deputy Commissioner General of the Bahrain Pavilion at the Expo Milan 2015 and Expo Osaka 2025, awarded respectively a silver medal and golden medal for Best Architecture and Landscape . Since 2015, she heads the Pearling, Testimony of an Island Economy UNESCO World Heritage project, which received the Aga Khan Award for Architecture as part of the Muharraq Revitalization project in 2019. She is the curator for the upcoming 2026 Design Doha Biennale and is a board member of the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, Palestine.