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Rethinking Global Cities: Arab Cities and the Limits of Supra-Urbanization

Rethinking Global Cities: Arab Cities and the Limits of Supra-Urbanization

When

04/06/2015    
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Where

John Hope Franklin Center 240
2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC

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Rethinking Global Cities: Arab Cities and the Limits of Supra-Urbanization

April 6 | 6:00 pm

Presented by the Duke University Middle East Studies Center

Reading group featuring Nasser Rabbat, MIT. RSVP required. This program is part of the “Rethinking Global Cities” project at Duke.

Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor of the History of Islamic Architecture and the director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His interests are Islamic architecture, urbanism, and postcolonial studies. In his research and teaching, he presents architecture in ways that illuminate its interaction with culture and society and stress the role of human agency in shaping that interplay.

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