Samia Henni is an architect, a historian, and an exhibition maker of the built, destroyed, and imagined environments. She is the author of the multi-award-winning Architecture of Counterrevolution: The French Army in Northern Algeria (gta Verlag 2017, 2022, EN; Editions B42, 2019, FR), and Colonial Toxicity: Rehearsing French Radioactive Architecture and Landscape in the Sahara (If I Can’t Dance, Framer Framed, edition fink, 2024, 2025, EN; Editions B42, 2025, FR), and the editor of Deserts Are Not Empty (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2022, 2025, EN; LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2024, IT) and War Zones (gta Verlag, 2018). She is also the maker of exhibitions, such as Psychocolonial Spaces(ArGe Kunst, Bolzano, 2025–), Performing Colonial Toxicity (Amsterdam, Zurich, London, Paris, Berlin, Ottawa, Montreal, 2023–), Discreet Violence: Architecture and the French War in Algeria (Zurich, Rotterdam, Berlin, Johannesburg, Paris, Prague, Ithaca, Philadelphia, Charlottesville, 2017–22), Archives: Secret-Défense? (ifa Gallery, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2021), and Housing Pharmacology (Manifesta 13, Marseille, 2020). Currently, she teaches at McGill University’s Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture in Montreal.