Sarah Shibani is a writer, researcher, and cultural strategist working at the intersection of culture and the built environment. She helps cities and large-scale developments define what they should mean and how heritage and contemporary ambition can become a single, distinctive sense of place.

Drawing on more than a decade of experience across design, hospitality, branding, and cultural initiatives, she examines how societies create meaning, how places acquire character, and how heritage continues to shape contemporary life.

Through writing, research, cultural programming, and strategic advisory work, she helps organizations and projects connect modern ambitions with deeper cultural narratives. Her particular interest lies in the relationship between culture, place-making, hospitality, and the ways communities preserve what matters across generations.

She is currently developing Custodians, a book exploring how civilizations survive through the people, practices, objects, and institutions that carry cultural memory forward.