Nader El-Bizri - Academic and Professional Profile

Academic and Professional Profile

Nader El-Bizri is a Visiting Professor of Visual Studies at the University of Lincoln and a principal lecturer (Reader) in architecture, and he teaches at the American University of Beirut in the Civilization Studies programme, and is the Director of the Anis Makdisi Program in Literature and the Humanistic Disciplines . He is also a senior Research Associate in Philosophy at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London; also acting as General Editor (and Managing Editor ex officio) of a book series published by Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London; titled: Epistles of the Brethren of Purity Series رسائل إخوان الصفاء, He is also the Co-Manager of a joint institutional project between The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the Institut Français du Proche Orient (IFPO) in Damascus (Syria), and acts as the Coordinator and Member of the Editorial Board of The Institute of Ismaili Studies Texts and Translations Series (London, I. B. Tauris).,.

El-Bizri has been an Affiliated Research Scholar and Lecturer at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge since 1999 (primarily lecturing on Arabic sciences and philosophy), and he has also been a Visiting Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Cambridge (Islamic Architecture). He furthermore holds a Chercheur Associé post at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, and he was previously a lecturer in Architecture at the University of Nottingham, and taught at Harvard University and the American University of Beirut. Moreover, he is an elected member of the Steering Committee of the Société Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences et des Philosophies Arabes et Islamiques (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris), and he is an active member of several societies, including The American Philosophical Association (APA), The British Society for Phenomenology, the International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society, and the Architectural Humanities Research Association (British Universities Consortium).

In addition, he is the co-editor of a book series in phenomenology (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands),, and as Section Editor (Islam) of the Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (SPRINGER, Dordrecht & Berlin), as well as being a member of the Editorial Board of a book series on philosophy and architecture (Toposophia; Lexington Books, Maryland, USA). He is also a Member of the Editorial Board of the distinguished academic journal: Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, which is published by Cambridge University Press. Among his other offices, he is also a board member on Fundamentals of Scientific Research at The Arab Organization for Translation in Beirut (linked to the Centre for Arab Unity Studies), and a member of the board of Consulting Editors of the Encyclopaedia Islamica (published by E. J. Brill, Leiden), as well as being the European Representative of the Equipe d’Etude et de Recherche sur le Patrimoine Scientifique Arabe, which is part of the Lebanese CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). He has also been a contributor to the Cultural and Classics Supplements of the daily Arabic international newspaper Al-Hayat (London; Beirut) الحياة .,

Nader El-Bizri also acted as consultant, expert advisor and referee to a variety of institutions, including the Solomon Guggenheim in New York, the Science Museum in London, the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and Architectural Awards in Geneva, and the AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council) in Britain. He also made several contributions to BBC Radio and Television cultural programs,

Besides his academic undertakings Nader El-Bizri has over twelve years of professional architectural design and consulting experience in offices and institutions in Geneva, London, Cambridge, New York, Boston and Beirut (He registered as Chartered Architect in 1990 as part of the Ordre des Ingénieurs et Architectes, Beirut, Lebanon).,