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Appointed 2005, Program in Art History |
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Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
B.A. (summa cum laude), University of California, Los Angeles
A.A., Beirut University College |
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Research interests |
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Early modern and modern Islamic Art and Architectural History,
urban history, theory of architectural preservation, and architecture
and gender |
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Recent courses |
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Islamic Art |
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Gender, Space, Architecture |
The Islamic City |
Arts of the Islamic Book |
Heritage, Patrimony and Monument: Representing and Displaying the Past (graduate seminar) |
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Books |
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The Image of an Ottoman City: Imperial Architecture and Urban
Experience in Aleppo in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(Leiden: Brill, 2004) Winner of the 2006 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians.
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Articles and essays |
"Learning from Taksim Square: Architecture, State Power, and Public Space in Istanbul,” Society of Architectural Historians Blog, June 11, 2013 |
“Syria’s Cultural Heritage: Another Casualty of War,” Society of Architectural Historians Blog, April 29, 2013 |
“The Harem as Biography: Domestic Architecture, Gender and Nostalgia in Modern Syria,” in Harem Histories: Lived Spaces and Envisioned Places, ed. Marilyn Booth, Duke University Press, 2010 |
"Find a Middle Ground: Armenian Church and the Getty Should work Together,” Los Angeles Times, July 19, 2010 |
“Art et architecture islamiques: des categories fluctuantes,” [Islamic Art and Architecture: Fluctuating Categories] Perspective: La revue de l’institut national d’histoire de l’art,, 2009-1: 91-98 |
“An Uneasy Historiography: The Legacy of Ottoman Architecture in the Former Arab Provinces,” Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, vol. 24 (2007), special issue: Historiography and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the “Lands of Rum,” edited by Gülru Necipoglu and Sibel Bozdogan |
“Knowledge, Heritage, Representation: The Commercialization of the Courtyard House in Aleppo,” in États et sociétés de l’Orient Arabe en quête
d’avenir, 1945-2005, ed. Gérard D. Khoury and Nadine Méouchy, vol. 2
(Paris: Geuthner, 2007). 209-218 |
“Deviant Dervishes: Space, Gender and the Construction of
Antinomian Piety in Ottoman Aleppo.” International Journal
of Middle East Studies 37:4 (November 2005) |
“A French Humanist in the Islamic City: The Chevalier d’Arvieux
(1635-1702), Merchant and Consul in Aleppo,” Thresholds:
The Critical Journal of Visual Culture 27 (2004): 18-22 |
Museums and the Construction of National History in Syria and Lebanon,” in Nadine Méouchy and Peter Sluglett, editors, The British and French Mandates in Comparative Perspective (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004): 185-202 |
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“Sources and Methods for Studying Women and and Islamic
Cultures in the Disciplinary Field of Art and Architecture,”
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Suad Joseph,
general editor (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003). Vol. 1. 315-320 and
4 Plates |
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“Writing the Imaginary Orient: Maurice Barrès’
Journey to the Levant,” History and Archaeology in Lebanon
12 (Autumn 2000): 94-95 |
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“Configuring the Empire: Urbanism, Architecture and Mercantile
Space in Ottoman Aleppo,” in Center 18: Research Report
1997-98 (Washington,
D.C.: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 1998): 183-186 |
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“Urban Planning, Architecture and Social Reality in Seventeenth-Century
New Julfa,” Asbarez Weekly, December 28, 1991. 10-11,
26. |
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Reviews |
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Cairo of the Mamluks: A History of the Architecture and Its Culture, by Doris Behrens-Abouseif; Mamluk History Through Architecture: Building, Culture, and Politics in Mamluk Egypt and Syria, by Nasser Rabbat,; and The Sultan Hasan Complex in Cairo, 1357-1364: A Case Study in the Formation of Mamluk Style, by Abdallah Kahil. Art Bulletin, Vol. XCIII, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 374-379 |
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Recent Fellowships |
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Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship,Center for Advanced Study in the
Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 2008-2009.
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President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities, University of
California, 2008-2009.
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Best Article Prize from the Syrian Studies Association, 2007 (Awarded to“Deviant Dervishes”). |
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Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, awarded to The Image of an Ottoman City, 2006.
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Aga Khan Career Development Professorship, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001-2005. |
| J. Paul Getty Post-doctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, 2004-2005. |
| National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Grant, 2004. |
| President's Faculty Research Award in the Humanities, Rice University, 2000-2001. |
| Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 1996-98. |
Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship for Syria and Turkey, U.S. Department of Education, 1996-97. |
| Social Science Research Council Dissertation Research Fellowship, Syria and Turkey, 1995-96. |
