Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Art of the Middle East/North Africa
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2003

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Batuman, Bulent, “Spaces of Counter-Hegemony: Turkish Architects and Planners as Political Agents in the 1970s” (SUNY Binghamton, T. McDonough)

Cichocki, Nina, “Tourists and Turkish Bathhouses: The Life Story of a Monument in a Global Age” (Minnesota, C. Asher)

Eimen, Alisa, “Museums and the (Re)Making of Modern Tehran” (Minnesota, C. Asher)

El Sandouby, Alia’a, “Remembering Al al-Bayt: The Shrines of the Family of the Prophet in Cairo, Damascus, and Aleppo” (UCLA, I. Bierman)

Lamprakos, Michele, “Conservation and Building Practice: The Case of San’a, Yemen” (MIT, N. Rabbat)

Roberson, Jennifer, “The Mosque: Community and Identity in Twentieth-Century Morocco and Spain” (Minnesota, C. Asher)

Smith, Sharon C., “Planned Grandeur: A Comparative Study of Urban Expansion in Early Modern Italy and Mamluk Egypt” (SUNY Binghamton, C. Burroughs)