Raafat Majzoub

Raafat Majzoub is a Visiting Lecturer at MIT's Art, Culture, and Technology Program and Research Fellow at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. Previously, he taught at the American University of Beirut and mentored at institutions like Misk Art Institute. His work bridges architecture, art, and literature to prototype new cultural realities through fiction and performance. He founded The Khan NGO to operationalize literary worlds into actionable cultural practices.

Key projects include Institute for Worldmaking (2024) – a Beirut-based installation reimagining cultural narratives – and Design to Live (2021), exploring refugee agency through design. His serial novel The Perfumed Garden generates fictional scenarios that challenge geopolitical boundaries, exemplified in performances like Hekmat, xx (2017). Majzoub's writings appear in Sharjah Architecture Triennial and MIT Press publications.

His research explores speculative historiography, using fiction as a tool to reframe political architectures. Collaborations include the Living Heritage Atlas (Beirut 2023 Venice Biennale) and strategic design initiatives for historic cities in Lebanon and Palestine. Exhibitions such as GROUNDS (2022) invite audiences to engage with collective fictions as valid realities.