Nasser Rabbat

April 09, 2010
Lecturer(s): Nasser Rabbat

Nasser Rabbat’s scholarly interests include the history and historiography of Islamic art and architecture, urban history, and post-colonial criticism. His research focuses on the overlapping intercultural spaces where peoples have always met and exchanged ideas. views, beliefs, and practices, and in the process created art and architecture. He received his masters in architecture at UCLA and his Ph.D. at MIT. He has worked as a designer in Los Angeles and Damascus. Among his honors are The American Research Center in Egypt Fellowship and the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship. In his lecture he will review the recent history of architecture in the Arab world down to the present from the perspective of identity politics.