Anas Soufan

Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Visiting Professor of Architecture and Historic Conservation, Wentworth Institue of Technology, Boston
Coordinator of the project Ancient Aleppo Recovery Master Plan
Artist, Maison des Artists de Paris
Anas Soufan
Office 205, Annex North, Wentworth Institute of Technology, 550 Parker St, Boston, MA 02120
857-328-3366
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Anas is an assistant professor, artist, architect, and urban planner specialist in the management of historic towns and world heritage sites. From an academic perspective, Anas holds several degrees in history, history of art, historic preservation and architecture design from Syria, France, Switzerland and the United States. Currently, he is a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture, Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT, Boston, USA) and an Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University (CMES, Cambridge, USA). Previously, Anas taught in several universities worldwide and he published, reviewed, translated, and edited books, reports, and articles in several languages; in parallel, Anas has been an advisor, consultant, and specialist-expert for several international organizations including UNESCO, ICOMOS, ARC-WH, AUDI, and so on. In practice, Anas is the founder and CEO of NABNI-H US, based in Boston and Paris. Through this entity, Anas designed and realized artifacts and projects of architecture design, urban design, adaptive reuse, and heritage management in a variety of scale, mainly in France, Syria, and the United States. Anas’ current focus is on the post-war recovery of historic towns and world heritage sites, dealing with the interconnections between the urban and architectural design and the ethical, economic, and sociopolitical aspects of the recovery process. He is advocating for the application of a new eclectic-multivocal approach—a "Participative Scope of Change"—based on innovative understanding of the partnership among public authorities, civil society organizations, and certain international entities. Based on this approach, Anas is a co-founder of the international initiative Fustoq focusing on the post-war recovery of the Ancient city of Aleppo gathering efforts of the Syrian Ministry of Culture, the Syrian Ministry of Local Administration, the Arab Regional Center for World Heritage, ARC-WH, the World Heritage Center of UNESCO, national and international non-governmental organizations including NABNI-H US. In this framework, Anas is the coordinator of the project AARMP, Ancient Aleppo Recovery Master Plan.