Ahmad Sukkar

Dr Ahmad Sukkar, a British Syrian academic and architect, is a Assistant Professor at the University of Sharjah. He was an Aga Khan Fellow at MIT, a Mellon Fellow at AUB, an Imam Bukhari Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow at the German OIB, a Fellow at Damascus University, and a MESA Global Academy Fellow. He has worked at leading architectural offices in the Middle East and the UK, including Zaha Hadid Architects. He completed his PhD and MRes at the University of London in architectural humanities and cultural studies, MArch at the Architectural Association in architecture and urbanism, and PGDip and BArch at Damascus University. He was shortlisted for the Tamayouz’s Mohamed Makiya Prize (Middle Eastern Architectural Personality of the Year 2020).