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Nadi Abusaada

Nadi Abusaada is an architect, urbanist and a historian. He is currently an Aga Khan Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Nadi completed his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees at the University of Cambridge and his B.A. (Hons) at the University of Toronto. Nadi is also the co-founder of Arab Urbanism, a global network dedicated to historical and contemporary urban issues in the Arab region. His writings have been featured in a number of international publications including The Architectural Review, The International Journal of Islamic Architecture, and the Jerusalem Quarterly among others.

ARTICLES BY Nadi Abusaada

  • Essential Readings on Urban Palestine

    Essential Readings on Urban Palestine

    The last century of political ruptures and upheavals in Palestine was also one of remarkable urban transformation. Until recently, scholarship on the modern history of Palestine overlooked the material and spatial changes that cities underwent as they entered the nineteenth and twentieth centuri..