VISITING POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

 

2007-08
2006-07
2005-06
2004-05
2003-04
2002-03
2001-02
1998-99
1997-98
1996-97
1995-96
1994-95
1993-94

 

2007-08

Hanaa Mohamed Adly Hassan
Helwan University, Egypt
In MIT residence 10/07 - 12/07
Topic:
Human Figures in Metalwork in Iran and Central Asia (11-13th C)

Stefan Heidemann
Friederich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany
In MIT residence 09/07 - 02/08
Topic:
Transformation of Middle Eastern Cities (11-12th C)

Nadeem Omar Tarar
National Coillege of Art, Lahore
In MIT residence 12/07 - 05/08
Topic:
De-Scribing Miniature Pianting in Illuminated Manuscripts: The Transformation of a Genre

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2006-07 (back to top)

Nadia M. Alhasani
American University of Sharjah, UAE
In MIT residence 9/06 - 05/07
Topic:
Case Studies on the Making of Cultural Identity in the Contemporary Architecture of the Arabian Gulf

Ralph Bodenstein
German Orient Institute, Damascus, Syria
In MIT residence 03/06 - 06/07
Topic:
Dwelling at Distance: Rise and Social Implications of "Garden Suburb" Residential Patterns in Beirut, 1800-1900

Sibel Zandi-Sayek
College of William and Mary
In MIT residence 09/06 - 06/07
Topic:
Competing Modernities: Urban Transformations of a Late Ottoman City 1830s-1890s

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2005-06 (back to top)

Paolo Girardelli
Bogazici University, Istanbu
In MIT residence 04/06 - 07/06
Topic:
The Architecture of the Eastern Question: Diplomacy and Urban Space in 19th Century Istanbul

Mahmoud Hawari
Oriental Institute Oxford, England
In MIT residence 10/05 - 04/06
Topic:
Citadel of Jerusalem:
A comprehensive Architectural and Archeological Study

Marcus Millwright
University of Victoria
In MIT residence 04/06 - 05/06
Topic:
The Archeology of the Islamic World: An Introduction

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2004-05 (back to top)

Giulia Annalinda Neglia
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
In MIT residence 9/04 - 11/04
Topic:
Tartus: Local dialectical process of transformation of the building fabric of a Crusader Castle during the Ayyubid and Mamluk Periods

Yosef Jabareen
Ben Gurion University & Technion-Israel Institue of Technology
In MIT residence 9/04 - 05/05
Topic:
"Space of Trust": A New Socio-Cultural Approach for Understanding the Traditional Islamic Built Environment

Munir Jiwa
Eugene Lang College
In MIT residence 9/04 - 01/05
Topic:
Contemporary Muslim Artists in NY

Abier Shamma
Independent researcher
In MIT residence 01/05 - 05/05
Topic:
Epigraphy on the Dome of the Rock

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2003-04 (back to top)

Vlad Atanasiu
Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris France
In MIT residence 10/03 - 7/04
Topic:
How Art Pleases: A Study of Regularity and Tension as Aesthetic Attributes in Arabic Calligraphy and Beyond
Article In AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Publication 2003-04

Hussein Keshani
University of Victoria, Canada
In MIT residence 01/04 - 04/04
Topic:
Gender and Architecture in 18th and 19th Century North India
Article In AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Publication 2003-04

Setrag Manoukian
Università di Milano-Bicocca
In MIT residence 01/04 - 03/04
Topic:
Urban Space and the Production of the Past in Contemporary Shiraz
Article In AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Publication 2003-04

Cristina Pallini
Milan Polytechnic, Italy
In MIT residence 10/03 - 07/04
Topic:
The Continuing Presence, influencing later Expressions of Tradition Architecture in the Modernization (1850-1920) of Eastern Mediterranean Ports: Alexandria, Izmir, Istanbul and Salonika
Article In AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Publication 2003-04

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2002-03 (back to top)

Samer Akkach
University of Adelaide, Australia
In MIT residence 09/02 - 11/02
Topic:
The Poetics of Concealment:
Al-Nabulusiís Encounter with the Dome of the Rock

Kimiyo Yamashita
Kokushikan University & Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
In MIT residence 03/02 - 09/02
Topic:
Ottoman Water Systems in Istanbul

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2001-02 (back to top)

Bulent Tanju
Yildiz University, Istanbul, Turkey
In MIT residence 01/02 - 05-02
Topic:
Turkish Modernity

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1998-99 (back to top)

Mustafa Pultar
Bilkent University, Turkey _________________________________________________________

1997-98 (back to top)

Francoise Choay
Sorbonne

Valerie Gonzalez-Hanany
Univ. of Marseille-Luminy
Topic:
Aesthetics and Artistic Creation in Islam:
The Example of the Alhambra Palaces in Granada

Shakeel Hossain

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1996-97 (back to top)

Khalil Pirani
American Institute of Architects, GGA AssociaTes
Topic:
Mosque Architecture in North America

Shakeel Hossain

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1995-96 (back to top)

Khalil Pirani
American Institute of Architects, GGA Associaes

Shakeel Hossain

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1994-95 (back to top)

Maurice Munir Cerasi
Faculty of Architecture of Genoa
3 Month Spring Appointment
Topic:
Research on language, culture, and typological concepts in the genesis of housing types in the Ottoman regions with comparison to western Slav, Syrian and Caucasian neighbors

Charles Hafez Chehab
University of New York, College at Brockport
Visiting scholar with the Program since 1991 and completed his term in December 1994. During his final semester, he completed an article on the "Lion of Baibars" at `Akkar al `Atiqa (North Lebanon).

Shakeel Hossain

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1993-94 (back to top)

Z. A. Desai
Archicrafts, Ahmedabad, India
Topic:
The Traditional Houseform of Bohras in Gujarat: Architectural Response to Cultural Ethos

Abd Al-Razzaq Moaz
Ministry of Culture, Syria

Shakeel Hossain

Amir Pasic
Yildiz University, Istanbul