Nadi Abusaada is a Jerusalem-born architect and historian currently serving as Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut. His work focuses on the material histories and visual cultures of the modern Arab world, with a focus on urban planning and governance in late Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. He is the co-editor of Arab Modern: Architecture and the Project of Independence (gta Verlag, 2025) and editor of Resurgent Nahda: The Arab Exhibitions in Mandate Jerusalem (Kaph Books, 2024). He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has held fellowships at MIT and ETH Zürich. Nadi is co-founder of Arab Urbanism and a contributing editor at the Jerusalem Quarterly.


