Fahad Zuberi

Fahad is an academic and columnist, currently pursuing PhD at MIT's Department of Architecture HTC. His work focuses on the intersection of architecture and violence, particularly in South Asian contexts. Fahad studied B. Arch at Aligarh Muslim University, an M. Arch HTC at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, and then pursued an MSc in Modern South Asian Studies at University of Oxford as the Indira Gandhi Radhakrishnan Scholar with Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development where he was awarded the Archibald Jackson Prize 2024 and Scholars Development Award 2024 for his work on Domicide.

Fahad has taught Architecture and Design Philosophy at CEPT University and at National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad as a visiting faculty and is a columnist and political commentator with several Indian platforms such as The Indian Express, The Hindu, The Wire and The Hindustan Times. Fahad has also worked as a comics journalist, in electoral politics, and seldom composes music. He is the Producer of Mutant: The Democracy Podcast -- conceived as a contemporary dictionary of politics -- with Institute of New Global Politics, Cal Poly Pomona and his first feature length film as a Music Director - Kayo Kayo Colour? - premiered at IFF, Rotterdam 2023.