Raafat Majzoub

Raafat Majzoub (b. 1986, Tripoli) is an architect, artist and writer. As director of The Khan: The Arab Association for Prototyping Cultural Practices, he explores world-making through fiction, performance and mutual learning experiments. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Architecture Series at Dongola and co-founder of The Outpost magazine. Majzoub is a visiting lecturer at MIT’s Art, Culture and Technology programme and a Research Fellow at the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture. Previously, he lectured in the Architecture and Design Department at the American University of Beirut and mentored at MISK Art Institute, Riyadh, and Ashkal Alwan, Beirut. He co-edited Beyond Ruins: Reimagining Modernism (ArchiTangle, 2024), Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp (MIT Press, 2021) and What are Borders? (AUB, 2021). His work has been shown internationally, most recently at Sharjah Biennial 16: to carry (2025) and Home Works Forum 9, Beirut (2023–2024).