Publications, Newsletters & Articles
AKPIA@MIT FORUM Studies In Architecture, History and Culture
This AKPIA@MIT project aims to highlight the work of the program’s associates and make it available to our wider community on the web. The papers reflect research done while at AKPIA@MIT and anticipate larger and fuller publications later on. Also, see Student Travel Grants for additional publications.
| Hanaa M. Adly Helwan University, Egypt AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 10/07 – 12/07 A Study on Islamic Human Figure Representation in Light of a Dancing Scene | Samer Akkach University of Adelaide, Australia AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 09/02 – 11/02 Poetry and Landscape Aesthetics in the Arab-Islamic Tradition | Vlad Atanasiu Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes Paris, France AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 10/03 – 7/04 The President and the Calligrapher: Arabic Calligraphy and Its Political Use | Jigar Bhatt MIT MCP 2006 AKPIA Travel Grant 2005 Preservation of Threatened Islamic Architecture on the Island of Mozambique |
| Stefan Heidemann Friederich Schiller Universität Jena, Germany AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 09/07 – 02/08 The Transformation of Middle Eastern Cities in the 12th Century: Financing Urban Renewal | Hussein Keshani University of Victoria, Canada AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 01/04 – 04/04 Strangers, Lovers, and Kin: Gender Roles and their Interplay with the Architecture of Awadh | Setrag Manoukian Università di Milano-Bicocca AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 01/04 – 03/04 History and the Production of the “Culture of Shiraz” | Marcus Millwright University of Victoria AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 04/06 – 05/06 Defining Islamic Archaeology: Some Preliminary Notes |
| Giulia Annalinda Neglia Politecnico di Bari, Italy AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 09/04 – 11/04 The Permanence of Roman Layouts in the Urban Fabric of Aleppo | Cristina Pallini Milan Polytechnic, Italy AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 10/03 – 07/04 Italian Architects and Modern Egypt | Luis Jose Garcia Pulido Spanish Research Group HUM-104, Granada AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 11/11- 02/12 Bioclimatic Devices of Nasrid Domestic Buildings | Martina Rugiadi Sapienza Università di Roma AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 09/09 – 11/09 The Ghaznavid Marble Architectural Decoration: An Overview |
| Nadeem Omar Tarar National College of Art, Lahore AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow 12/07 – 05/08 Framing of a National Tradition: Modern Masters and National Art History in Pakistan (Unavailable for download. Third Text copyright and publisher) |  Articles by the 2003-2004 AKPIA@MIT Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellows |