Professor Howayda Al-Harithy

Professor and Chair of the Department of Architecture and Design American University of Beirut

Title of presentation :Urban Heritage and the Politics of Identity Construction
 

Dr. Howayda Al-Harithy received her masters in architecture from MIT in 1987 and PhD in architectural history from Harvard University in 1992. Her research in Islamic art and architecture focuses on the Mamluk period. She is published in international journals such as Oxford's Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Muqarnas, Mamluk Studies Review, and the Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review. Recent research focuses on urban heritage with special emphasis on the theoretical debate on heritage construction and consumption related to identity building and post war reconstruction projects as applied to the contemporary practice in the Arab World.