Nader El-Bizri

Civilization Studies and Philosophy

Professor

American University of Beirut

Nader El-Bizri is a Professor of Civilization Studies and Philosophy at the American University of Beirut (AUB). El-Bizri is also an Affiliated Scholar with the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and an Associate of the Senior Combination Room at King’s College. He also served as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in intellectual history at Durham University.  Prior to that, he acted as the Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, and as the Director of the General Education Program in the Liberal Arts and the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature at AUB. He was also previously the Director of the Civilization Studies Program and the Coordinator of the MA in Islamic Studies at the AUB Centre for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. Prior to joining AUB, he was a Principal Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Lincoln and held a Lectureship in Architectural Theory at the University of Nottingham, and taught at Harvard University.

Nader El-Bizri is one of the Honorary Guests at the World Academic Forum Stockholm Summit 2022.