Matthew (Matt) Saba is Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture at the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT. As Visual Resources Librarian, Matt is responsible for researching, digitizing, and cataloging the collections, as well as facilitating reproduction of AKDC materials for educational and scholarly purposes.
Before joining the AKDC, Matt studied Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Art History at the University of Chicago where he wrote a dissertation examining the palaces of the Abbasid caliphs in Iraq. He has also worked as a curatorial fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and taught courses in Islamic art and architecture at The University of Chicago, Columbia University, and Marymount Manhattan College. 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 projects to create more robust and representative metadata schema for describing cultural heritage from the Middle East and Muslim world more broadly.
