Nour Ahmad El Baba is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture - Design and Built Environment, Beirut Arab University (BAU), Lebanon. She holds a PhD from BAU and specializes in urban design and planning, examining retail resilience as a complex urban system through GIS-based multi-criteria modeling and composite indices such as the Urban Retail Resilience Index. Since 2017, she has been teaching architectural design studios and courses in urban design and planning, guiding students through to their graduation projects. She also gained professional experience in architectural firms, working on residential, educational, commercial, and heritage projects, locally and regionally.

Retail resilience in urban environments; commercial areas as complex urban systems; urban resilience and adaptive cycle theory; commercial urban corridors and historic markets; geospatial and GIS-based multi-criteria modeling; composite index development; urban health and wellbeing; livability and quality of life in low-income areas; heritage-led urban regeneration; evidence-based planning for sustainable urban transformation.

PhD in Architecture, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon (2026); Thesis: Resilient Retail in Urban Environment, A Geospatial Model. Master of Architecture (M.Arch), Beirut Arab University, Lebanon (2017); RIBA Part 2 validated. Bachelor of Architectural Engineering, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon (2016); RIBA Part 1 validated.

Architectural design studios across undergraduate levels, including graduation projects; urban design and city and town planning; geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis; field-based urban studies; environmental impact assessment; execution design; interior design; graduation project programming and dissertation; theory of colors.

4th Place, 17th Chaderji Awards for architecture students in Lebanon (2017). Selected entries to the RIBA President’s Medals: Part 2, ‘The Integrated Society’ (2017); Part 1, ‘The Others’ (2016). Assisted in the preparation of the ‘Healthy Urban Systems’ MOOC with ISC, ISUH, WHO and the University of Lausanne (2020–2023). Rapporteur, 10th ASCAAD International Conference (2022). Faculty Council Secretary, BAU (three terms, 2020–2024). Arch Angel, ARCHMARATHON Awards, Beirut (2015).