Nasser Rabbat

An architect and a historian, Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor of the History of Islamic Architecture and the director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His scholarly interests include the history and historiography of Islamic architecture, art, and cultures, urban history, and post-colonial criticism. He teaches lecture courses Islamic architecture and seminars on the history of Islamic urbanism and contemporary cities, orientalism, and more. In his research and teaching he presents architecture in ways that illuminate its interaction with culture and society and stress the role of human agency in shaping that interplay. He has published some hundred scholarly articles and book sections in English, Arabic, and French. He was a visiting professor at the EHESS and at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship and the American Research Center in Egypt and holder of the Chaire de l'Institut du Monde Arabe. Nasser Rabbat worked as an architect in Los Angeles and Damascus.