Hiba Bou Akar is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). Bou Akar received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and a Master’s in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
She has published articles on geographies of planning, war, violence, security, and religious political organizations. She was the co-editor of Narrating Beirut from its Borderlines (Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2011) and a special issue on “Security and the City” in City & Society (2012). She has recently published a book project entitled Planning Beirut: For the War Yet to Come, focusing on the spatial practices of religious-political organizations in shaping post civil war frontier geographies. Hiba is a co-editor of Jadaliyya`s Cities Page. Click here to visit her Hampshire College profile.
