Reading group featuring Nasser Rabbat, MIT. RSVP required. This program is part of the “Rethinking Global Cities” project at Duke.
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 interests are Islamic architecture, urbanism, and postcolonial studies. 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.