Living the history of Cairo
“Writing Egypt,” a new book by MIT Professor Nasser Rabbat, explores the life of the influential medieval Egyptian historian and scholar Al-Maqrizi.
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“Writing Egypt,” a new book by MIT Professor Nasser Rabbat, explores the life of the influential medieval Egyptian historian and scholar Al-Maqrizi.
a href= https://asia.si.edu/ target= _blank The National Museum of Asian Art /a has announced its 2023 recipients of the Freer Medal, a lifetime a
Martha Tedeschi, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums, announced today the appointment of Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım as the new Norma Jean Calderwood Curator ...
The Harvard Art Museums have appointed Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım as the new Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, effective Oct. ...
“Urbicide” — the intentional killing of a city — is a brutal tactic of war, designed to destroy people’s sense of home and belonging to a larger collective. But even in peacetime, architecture and urban planning can become part of a more subtle kind of war over who gets to call a city home. The fourth episode in our series The Idea of Home.