Interviews and Podcasts – Nasser Rabbat

September 9-10, 2008. Discussion with Eric Westervelt of NPR on Syria’s ‘Dead Cities’ published on Link
December 10, 2008, Interview with Arash Hoda of WNET for a PBS documentary “Art Through Time: A Global View” http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart. http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/2/index.html. http://www.learner.org/courses/globalart/theme/4/index.html
January 6, 2009, Interview with Granada Television, UK at the Crac des Chevaliers, Syria, for the PBS documentary “Ground War,’ episode 4, “Command and Control.” http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ground-war/episodes/command-and-control/production-credits-episode-4/26/
March 27, 2010, interview with discover-syria.com on the conference “Continuity and change: Religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammad,” http://www.discover-syria.com/news/6409
February 1, 2012, interview with Jane O’Brien, BBC News, “Muslim America Moves away from the Minaret,” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16825976
August 24, 2012, Interview with Robin Young, Here & Now, WBUR, “Violence In Syria Threatens World Cultural Heritage,” http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2012/08/24/syrian-violence-heritage
February 19, 2013, Interview with Robin Young, Here & Now, WBUR, “Three Syrian Historical Sites Under Threat,” http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/02/19/syrian-historical-sites
Jul 23, 2013, interview on the history of Syria with Hayvi Bouzo, for the program “Fi-al Mihwar” on Orient TV, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbp-FrQ5URQ
February 27, 2014, podcast on Open Source with Christopher Lydon on WGBH and the Web, “Nasser Rabbat: Life and Death in Syria,” http://radioopensource.org/nasser-rabbat/
November 14, 2014, “Nasser al-Rabbat: Dhidd al-Markaziyya al-Uruppiyya (Against Eurocentrism),” Interview in the Culture Supplement to the al-‘Arabi al-Jadid on my work as a historian and cultural critic conducted by Dima al-Chukr, http://www.alaraby.co.uk/supplementculture
April 6, 2015, “Focus on Cairo-Working Group,” part of the “Rethinking Global Cities” project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pipguXhfafo, and “‪Medieval Global Cairo,” interview with Burak Erdim, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKD1T5d5itQ Duke University, Durham, NC
March 1, 3, and 8, 2016, interviews with Kanishk Tharoor in the BBC series: the Museum of Lost Objects http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0738jc2/episodes/player, Palmyra: Temple of Bel, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071tgbm; Minaret of the Umayyad Mosque, Aleppo, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b071vlmj, Al-Ma’arri the Poet http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b072jfct
March 23, 2016, Interview with Sylvie Depondt, Curator of the Exhibition Jardins d’orient: de l’Alhambra au Taj Mahal, April 19-September 25, 2016, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhQgTAhweE
April 8, 2016, Interview with Giacomo Cosua, Editor-in-Chief, Posi+Tive Magazine on reconstruction in Syria, http://www.positive-magazine.com/urbicide-syria-whats-next-war/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfkPOFH7fwM&nohtml5
October 14, 2016, interview with Nigel Hunt, CBC News, on the Syria exhibit at Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/syria-aga-khan-museum-1.3805497
January 9, 2017, “Celebrating Five Thousand Years of Multi-Culturalism,” an Interview with Artscoops on the Syria Exhibition at the Aga Khan Museum http://artscoops.com/Digest-Details/94/Celebrating-five-thousand-years-of-multi-culturalism
April-May 2018, “Islamic Calligraphy, Mosque Architecture, Ottoman Architecture, Sinan, Suleyman the Magnificent,” in the BBC Series Civilizations, 3rd episode ‘God and Art’ and 5th episode ‘Renaissances’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/GThNCvQtxsgJfJrxCxFJb2/civilisations-masterworks-of-beauty-and-ingenuity. http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Civilizations-3725
July 7, 14, 21, 2018, Interview with Belal Fadl on his program “‘Asir al-Kutub” (The Juice of Books), episodes 139-140-141, on Alaraby TV. Watch on YouTube E139, Watch on YouTube E140, Watch on YouTube E141
May 17, 2019, interview with Marco Werman, host of PRI’s The World on IM Pei’s design of the Islamic Art Museum in Doha, Qatar. Link
June 9, 2019, interview with Abdul Rahman AbuMaleh, in his Podcast “Finjan,” Watch on YouTube, broadcast also on “Thmanyah” Podcast Link
April 8, 2020, Podcast “Can we Learn from the Past?” Arts In Isolation Series – Asia House, London, in association with the Barakat Trust. Link
May 20, 2020, ArchitectureTalk, Ep 71. Architecture in the Time of Coronavirus with Vikram Prakash Link, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/71-aitc-politics-and-pandemics-with-nasser-rabbat/id1232999115?i=1000475249446
June 1, 2020, Webinar, “A Hopeful Post-Colonial Moment,” Virtual Space, Mawane, Link
July 18, 2020, Online Cultural Majlis with Sultan Saoud al-Qasimi. Nasser Rabbat: My Journey with History, Watch on YouTube
February 4, 2021, Online afikra | عفكرة Conversation with Mikey Muhanna, Founder & Executive Director, Watch on YouTube, Link
August 9, 2021, Interview on Syria.tv about my book on the “Dead Cities” in Syria, Watch on YouTube
February 20, 2022, Interview on Al-Fanar Media on preserving Arab architectural heritage, Link
September 14, 2022, Interview with Durrie Bouscaren of the World Public Radio on the Wind Catchers, Link
October 30, 2022, Interview with Radio Muscat on the Aga Khan Awards for Architecture, Watch on YouTube
April 10, 2023, Interview with Moaz Lafi for Muwatin Website on Hassan Fathi, history writing, Islamic architecture, and the contemporary Gulf. Link
September 29, 2023, Critical Ottoman and Post Ottoman Studies Podcast, “Operation Tabula Rasa: The rapid demolition of Cairo’s heritage,” Cornell University.
April 1, 2024, Nine Arab American architects you should know,” AIA Architect, by Jenine Kotob, AIA and Greg Menti. Link
April 18, 2024, What happened to the Arab City? Usman Butt of Middle East Monitor in Conversation with Nasser Rabbat. Link / Watch on YouTube