Nasser Rabbat is Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT. He was on sabbatical in the academic year 2022-23 and received two prestigious fellowships. The first was the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Visiting Professorship at the I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, in Florence, Italy in the Fall of 2022. The second was a Getty Senior Scholar fellowship at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles from January to June 2023. His latest book, Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project came out from Edinburgh University Press in December 2022. During his sabbatical, he completed an Arabic version of his book on al-Maqrizi, which will be published in 2024, and wrote several chapters of his history of Mamluk Cairo. He also lectured at the University of Rochester, NY; New York University in Abu Dhabi, UAE; the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence; Loyola Marymount University, LA; UC Santa Barbara, CA; as well as the I Tatti and the Getty Center.
