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Hashim Sarkis

Hashim Sarkis is a practicing architect in Lebanon, and Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he teaches design studios and courses in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism. His projects include a housing complex in Tyre, schools in North Lebanon and designs for public spaces in Beirut and Tripoli. He was previously a lecturer in the MIT Department of Architecture and a research associate in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Sarkis has also taught design studios at the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University, and has been visiting lecturer at the American University of Beirut. He is executive editor of CASE, a publication series of case studies in architecture and urbanism, author of Circa 1958: Lebanon in the Plans and Photographs of Constantinos Doxiadis (Beirut: Dar an-Nahar, 2002); co-editor with Peter G. Rowe of Projecting Beirut (Prestel, 1998); and an occasional contributor to An-Nahar newspaper in Beirut. He received his BArch and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, his MArch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and his Ph.D. in architecture from Harvard University.