Serge Yazigi is an architect, urban planner and lecturer at ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts – Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts) and at Saint Joseph University, Beirut. He is the founder and director of the Majal academic urban observatory (IUA-ALBA, University of Balamand). His research and his professional activities are oriented towards reconstruction projects and the challenges of urban regeneration in Lebanon and the Middle East.