Dr Ahmad Sukkar is a well-established academic and intellectual. His work has received international awards, and it examines the interaction between architecture and urbanism, humanities, and culture in connection with design, heritage, and identity in the Middle East. Prior to joining the University of Sharjah’s Department of Architectural Engineering as an assistant professor, Dr Ahmad Sukkar was an Aga Khan Fellow at MIT, an Imam Bukhari Fellow at the University of Oxford, a visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, a Mellon Fellow at the American University of Beirut, a Fellow at the German Orient-Institut Beirut, an Overseas Research Fellow at Damascus University, and a Middle East Studies Association of North America’s Global Academy Scholar. He completed a Ph.D. and a master’s of research (M.Res) in architectural humanities and cultural studies at the University of London with a doctoral dissertation shortlisted for the British Association for Islamic Studies’ De Gruyter Prize for the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. He also completed a master’s degree (M.Arch.) in architecture and urbanism at the Architectural Association. Attended by Zaha Hadid and leading architects, his master’s research project with his team received a distinction and the Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award. He has worked at leading architectural offices in the Middle East and the UK, including Zaha Hadid Architects. His publications appear in prestigious architectural and literary journals, including Buildings, Sustainability, Archives of Design Research, Civil Engineering and Architecture, Open House International, Mawlana Rumi Review (Brill), the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, and al-Adab. He has acted as examiner of several doctoral and Master’s theses, as supervisor to several master’s dissertations, and as a reviewer to several Scopus-indexed journals such as Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research and the Journal of Infrastructure, Policy and Development. He received several funds from international organizations, including the University of Sharjah, the GIZ, and the EU. He was shortlisted for the Tamayouz’s Mohamed Makiya Prize (Middle Eastern Architectural Personality of the Year 2020). Interviews with him appear on Jadaliyya and Round City.

Architecture & Urban Planning

13th-18th Centuries

7th-13th Centuries

Arab Studies

History Of Architecture

Islamic Thought

All Time Periods

Islamic Studies

All Middle East

Arab States

Syria

Palestine

Ottoman Empire

Fertile Crescent

Europe

Mashreq

The Levant

Saudi Arabia

Architectural Humanities In Islamic Studies

Islamic Philosophy And Mysticism

Digital And Sacred Architecture

English (fluent)

Arabic (native)