2022-2023 |

Lydia Harrington PhD Boston University
In MIT residence 09/01/2022 - 5/31/2023
Topic: Vocational Schools and Shifting Arts and Crafts Pedagogy in the Late Ottoman Empire |

Semra Horuz In MIT residence 09/01/2023 - 5/31/2023 Topic: Ottoman Tour d’Europe: Architecture, Urbanism, and Late Ottoman Travelogues
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2021-2022 |

Nadi Abusaada University of Cambridge In MIT residence 09/01/2021 - 5/31/2022 Topic: Founding the Profession: Arab Architects and the Making of the Modern Arab World
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Hakim Sameer Hamdani School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi In MIT residence 09/01/2021 - 5/31/2022 Topic: Constructing Spaces of Worship: Understanding Muslim Places of Faith in 19th Century Kashmir as Representatives of a Native Identity |
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2020-2021 Fellowship suspended because of COVID19 |
2019-2020 |
 Majdi Faleh
University of Melbourne
In MIT residence 09/01/2019 - 12/31/2019
Topic: Reconstructing National Identity
in the Context of Colonialism, Dictatorship, and Globalization
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Atri Hatef Naiemi
University of Victoria
In MIT residence 09/01/2019 - 12/31/2019
Topic: The Mongol City of Ghazaniyya: Destruction, Spatial Reconstruction,
and Conservation of the Urban Heritage Article |

Nada Moumtaz
University of Toronto
In MIT residence 09/01/2019 - 05/31/2020
Topic: Horizons of Trust: Islamic Endowments and Postwar Reconstruction in Beirut |

Ahmad Sukkar
Orient-Institut Beirut / Arab Reform Initiative
In MIT residence 09/01/2019 - 05/31/2020
Topic: Post-secular Syrian Space? Madani (Civil) vs Islami (Islamic) vs ‘Ilmani (Secular) |
2018-2019 |
Al Kindi al-Jawabra
Barker Langham Cultural Consultancy MIT Residency not fulfilled
02/01/2019 - 05/31/2019 Topic: Heritage, Conflict and Reconstructions: From Reconstructing Monuments to Reconstructing Societies
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Allison Cuneo Cultural Property Consultants, LLC
In MIT residence 09/02/2018 - 05/31/2019 Topic: Disentangling the political constraints and societal consequences of post-conflict archaeological heritage management in Iraq
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Deen Sharp
CUNY
In MIT residence 09/03/2018 - 06/01/2019
Topic: Reconstructing Violence
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2017-2018 |

Amine Kasmi
University of Tlemcen
In MIT residence 02/01/2018-05/31/2018
Topic: Rebuilding Abd al-Qadir’s Former Cities under French Colonial Administration: From Regulation to Renewal |
Eisa Esfanjary Kenari Isfahan University of Art, Iran MIT Residency not fulfilled
01/01/2018-05/31/2018 Topic: The Medieval Houses of Yazd |

Aleksandar Stanicic The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University
In MIT residence 09/01/2017-05/31/2018
Topic: Post-conflict reconstruction of Balkan and lessons for Middle East. Article |
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2016-2017 |

Angela Andersen The Ohio State University In MIT residence 09/05/2016-01/04/2017 Topic: Cem Evleri: An Examination of the Historical Roots and Contemporary Meanings of Alevi Architecture and Iconography Keller Gallery Exhibition Review Empathy and the Creation
of Virtual Space |
Julia Gonnella Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin Residency not fulfilled Topic: Friedrich Sarre, the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art and Oriental Taste in Berlin |

Burak Erdim North Carolina State University In MIT residence 02/01/17-05/31/17 Topic: The Valley and the State: Situating Planning Cultures in the Cold War Middle East |

El Hadi Jazairy The University of Michigan In MIT residence 09/01/2016-05/31/2017 Topic: Urbanism and Energy Systems |
Eisa Esfanjary Kenari Isfahan University of Art, Iran Residency postponed to
01/01/2018-05/31/2018 Topic: The Medieval Houses of Yazd |
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2015-2016 |

Filippo De Dominicis
University IUAV of Venice In MIT residence 01/16- 05/16 Topic: Islamic sub-Saharan Africa and Post-War Modern Urbanism. The Khartoum, Fort-Lamy and Dakar testing-ground experiences (1958-1968)
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Jan Haenraets
Director, Atelier Anonymous, Vancouver In MIT residence 09/15- 02/15 Topic: The Mughal Terrace Gardens of Kashmir, India: A comparative inquiry into the origins, typology and horticulture
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Mika Natif
The George Washington University In MIT residence 09/15- 11/15 Topic: Concepts of city-scape architecture, landscape and perspective in early Mughal painting
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Anas Soufan University of Geneva Maison des Artistes de Paris In MIT residence 09/15-02/16 Topic: The appropriation of Syrian urban space by an Islamic art in the era of modernity: Case of Damascus 1839-1963
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2014-2015 |

Farhan Karim The University of Kansas In MIT residence 3/15- 05/15 Topic: The broken wings of postcolonial self:
Muslim nationalism and the Western Architects in Pakistan, 1947-71 |

Dana Sajdi Boston College In MIT residence 9/14- 06/15 Topic: Visualizing Damascus:
Arabic Textual Representations from the 12th to the 20th |

Anas Soufan University of Geneva Maison des Artistes de Paris MIT Residence postponed until the Fall of 2015 Topic: The appropriation of Syrian urban space by an Islamic art in the era of modernity: Case of Damascus 1839-1963 |
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2013-2014 |

Zeynep Kezer Newcastle University School of Architecture Planning and Landscape In MIT residence 9/13- 05/14 Topic: The Limits of State: Borders, Belonging and Geography in Early Republican Elazi
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Antonio Rotolo University of Granada In MIT residence 9/13- 03/14 Topic: Collective Fortified Granaries and Strategies for Preserving Means of Subsistence in the Islamic Social Formation. From a Sicilian Case Study to a Global Approach
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Sumayah Al-Solaiman University of Dammam In MIT residence 11/13-11/14 Topic: Architectural precedents and the exploitation of terminology in the contemporary architectural design of Saudi Arabia
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 Elodie Vigouroux French Institute of the Near East (IFPO) Beirut In MIT residence 10/13- 03/14 Topic: The Economic Topography of Damascus in the Middle Ages
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2012-2013 |

Suna Cagaptay Bahcesehir University, Turkey In MIT residence 9/12- 05/13 Topic: States Fall, Buildings Stand: Reading Buildings for a Mixed Cultural Past in Medieval and Early Modern Anatolia (1240-1460) |

Beniamino Polimeni Universita Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria In MIT residence 1/13- 04/13 Topic: The Ibadi Regions of the Mediterranean Maghreb: A Study on Settlements and Architectural Forms |

Cinzia Tavernari University of Urbino In MIT residence 10/12- 03/13 Topic: Architecture and archaeology of travel in Islamic countries (12th -16th century |
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2011-2012 |

Luis Jose García Pulido Spanish Research Group HUM-104: Laboratory of City Archaeology and Architecture In MIT residence 11/11- 02/12 Topic: Adaptation Of Architecture Of Al-Andalus to the Climatic Change Produced from the "Medieval Warm Period" (10th To 14th Centuries) to the "Little Ice Age" (15th - 19th Centuries)
Article
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Riyaz Latif Ph.D from University of Minnesota In MIT residence 9/11-5/12 Topic: Anchoring the Fez Medina: Architectural Markers and European Interactions
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Samir Mahmoud Jesus College PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Divinity In MIT residence 2/12-4/12 Topic: ‘The Abstract’ and ‘The Geometric’ as a Visual System of Knowledge:
The ‘Islamic’ Art of the Alhambra (Granada) & the Ince Minare Medresse (Konya)
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Ipek Tureli Ph.D., University of California Berkeley In MIT residence 9/11-12/11 Topic: Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity
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2010-2011 |

Benjamin Michaudel Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Syria In MIT residence 01/11 -05/11 Topic: The Golden Age of Medieval Military Architecture
under the Ayyubids and the Mamluks (12th – 15th c.)
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Laura Parodi University College Dublin In MIT residence 02/11 -05/11 Topic: The Chaharbagh Reconsidered: A Comparative Inquiry
on Late Timurid, Early Safavid and Early Mughal Sources
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Saleema Waraich Smith College In MIT residence 09/10 -02/11 Topic: Contesting Muslim Spaces:
Power, Place, and Representation in South Asia
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2009-2010 |

Nicolas Prouteau University of Nantes In MIT residence 02-10 - 06/10 Topic: The Building of Urban Walls in Islamic Cities (XIIth-XIIIth c.)
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Mrinalini Rajagopalan New York University In MIT residence 01-10 - 04/10 Topic: Islamic Monuments in Post-Colonial India
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Martina Rugiadi Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf) In MIT residence 09-09 - 11/09 Topic: The Significance Of Ghaznavid Marble Architectural Decoration (11th-13th Centurires) Article
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Imran Bin Tajudeen National University of Singapore In MIT residence 11/09 - 03/10 Topic: A Typological and Stylistic Study of Tamil, Hadhrami and Chinese
Peranakan Mosques in Western Nusantara, c.1550-1850
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2008-2009 |

Ahmed Zaib Khan Mahsud Katholic University, Leuven In MIT residence 09/08 - 05/09 Topic: Making of Islamabad 1959-63
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Adriana de Miranda University of Bergamo In MIT residence 09/08 - 11/08 Topic: Renovation of Syrian Water Wheels in the Orontes Valley
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Sarah Moser University of Singapore In MIT residence 11/08 - 05/09 Topic: Emerging Middle Eastern Influences in Indonesian and Malaysian Seats of Political Power
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Abdul Rehman (Affiliation) Lahore University of Engineering and Technology In MIT residence 07/08 - 09/08 Topic: Islamic Garden Heritage of Pakistan
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Salim Tamari Birzeit University In MIT residence 01/09 - 05/09 Topic: Jerusalem: Late Ottoman & Colonial Modernity
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2007-2008 |

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) Article
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Stefan Heidemann Friederich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany In MIT residence 09/07 - 02/08 Topic: Transformation of Middle Eastern Cities (11-12th C) Article
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Nadeem Omar Tarar National College of Art, Lahore In MIT residence 12/07 - 05/08 Topic: De-Scribing Miniature Pianting in Illuminated Manuscripts: The Transformation of a Genre (Published by Third Text)
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2006-2007 |

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
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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
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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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2005-2006 |

Paolo Girardelli Bogazici University, Istanbul In MIT residence 04/06 - 07/06 Topic: The Architecture of the Eastern Question: Diplomacy and Urban Space in 19th Century Istanbul
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Mahmoud Hawari Oriental Institute Oxford, England In MIT residence 10/05 - 04/06 Topic: Citadel of Jerusalem:
A comprehensive Architectural and Archeological Study
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Marcus Millwright University of Victoria In MIT residence 04/06 - 05/06 Topic: The Archeology of the Islamic World: An Introduction
Article
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2004-2005 |

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
Article
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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
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 Munir Jiwa Eugene Lang College In MIT residence 9/04 - 01/05 Topic: Contemporary Muslim Artists in NY
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Abier Shamma Independent researcher In MIT residence 01/05 - 05/05 Topic:
Epigraphy on the Dome of the Rock
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2003-2004 |
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
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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
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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
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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
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2002-2003 |
2001-2002 |
1998-1999 |
1997-1998 |
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
Article
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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Bulent Tanju Yildiz University, Istanbul, Turkey In MIT residence 01/02 - 05-02 Topic: Turkish Modernity
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Mustafa Pultar Bilkent University, Turkey
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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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1997-1996 |
1995-1996 |
1994-1995 |
1993-1994 |
Khalil Pirani American Institute of Architects, GGA Associates Topic: Mosque Architecture in North America
Shakeel Hossain
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Khalil Pirani American Institute of Architects, GGA Associates Topic: Mosque Architecture in North America
Shakeel Hossain
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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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Z. A. Desai Archicrafts, Ahmedabad, India Topic: The Traditional Houseform of Bohras in Gujarat: Architectural Response to Cultural Ethos
Shakeel Hossain
Abd Al-Razzaq Moaz Ministry of Culture, Syria
Amir Pasic Yildiz University, Istanbu
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