Nasser Rabbat | Islamic Architecture & Urban Culture
Our conversation with Professor Nasser was all about his expertise in the field of architecture, directing the MIT Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, and his interests and publications on Islamic architecture, urban history, Arab history, contemporary Arab art, heritage studies, and post-colonial criticism.
Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. His interests include Islamic architecture, urban history, Arab history, contemporary Arab art, heritage studies, and post-colonial criticism. He has published numerous articles and several books on topics ranging from Mamluk architecture to Antique Syria, to urbicide, most recently ‘Imarat al-Mudun al-Mayyita (The Architecture of the Dead Cities) (2018); and an online book, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS, co-edited with Pamela Karimi (2016). He is currently completing a book on the 15th century Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi. Rabbat held several academic and research appointments in Cambridge MA, Princeton, Los Angeles, Cairo, Granada, Rome, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Munich, and Bonn.
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