Matt Saba

Matt is Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture at the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries. His research interests include imperial building practices in late antiquity and early Islam as well as the history of Islamic art as a discipline.

As a librarian he is involved in building MIT’s bibliographic collections on art and architecture related to the Islamic tradition, facilitating access to archival resources, and developing projects to create more robust and representative metadata schema for describing cultural heritage from the Middle East and Muslim world more broadly.

He studied City Design and Social Science at the London School of Economics (Msc),

History of Art and Architecture (MA) and Economics (BA) at the American University in Cairo. He is the co-author (with Sam Bowker) of The Tentmakers of Cairo: Egypt’s Medieval and Modern Applique Craft (AUC Press, 2018).