Saïd Nuseibeh's photography is about connectedness. Working usually with architectural subjects, he illuminates the metaphoric and human structures that bridge mankind with the sublime. He finds inspiration in the private whispers and charged exultations of radiant energy in venues as diverse as the American, European, Palestinian and Islamic cultures. He says, "I wanted to unwrap my camera and communicate an experience beyond or beneath words, how language is a radiant evanescent drop in the ocean of sweat that is spun from the bodies that build literacy, culture and civilization."

Nuseibeh has been awarded a Fulbright which will give him the luxury to create new photographs of Arab and Islamic art & architecture. The award is based upon a project to illuminate the Umayyad legacy in the Levant. The Umayyads were the first Muslim dynasty to succeed the Righteous Caliphs and who governed in Damascus from 663-749 c.e. They inaugurated a novel aesthetic program including design and construction of the Qubbat al-Sakhra (Dome of the Rock) in Jerusalem. Umayyad patronage infused the young Islamic civilization with creative influences from the Sassanian, Byzantine, Roman and Arab cultures, to name a few. What do these influences look like in the Umayyad fusion?