Your Guide
YOUR CICERONI (YOUR GUIDE)
My name is Dr. Samir Mahmoud (please call me Samir) and I’ll be your host, guide, and Ciceroni (tutor) during these culturally exhilarating tours. I am the Founder-Director of MCA, a Cambridge graduate, and an Assistant Professor at LAU. As your Ciceroni I will be providing a general curriculum and education. On the menu you will find quite the enticing mix of appetizers including philosophy, art history, architectural history, aesthetics, literature, psychology, mindfulness, and spirituality.
MY TRAVELS
I have travelled with a coffee in one hand and a book in the other to: Italy, France, Spain, Germany, the United Kingdom, the U.S, Switzerland, Syria, Egypt, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia. Nothing excites me more than a bit of historical dramatization infused with art, architecture, urbanism, classical and medieval philosophy, and comparative religion. Throw in some Renaissance philosophy, history, aesthetics, spirituality, and anthropology and I’m at home.
AND THERE'S MORE
I also have a postdoctoral fellowship from MIT, Oxford, and AUB. I was recently Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at the AUB and am currently Assistant Professor of Architectural History & Theory at LAU. I have a broad interest in Mindfulness & Well-being, classical philosophy, art & architecture, mysticism (Christian, Buddhist, and Islamic), Renaissance philosophy & art, German philosophy, Jungian psychology, and history.