Aga Khan Museum hosts 1st major showcase spotlighting Syria since civil war began. Prof. Nasser Rabbat shows some of the rare artifacts on display as part of the exhibit Syria: A Living History, at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Syrian-born Nasser Rabbat, who co-curated the exhibition and is a professor in the Aga Khan program of Islamic art and architecture at MIT in Cambridge, Mass., says the show conveys "the hope for Syria to return to being a normal country, a prosperous country contributing to world culture that it has done for thousands of years."