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CATEGORIES:Lecture,Arts,Exhibition,Visual Arts,Literary
DESCRIPTION:Free\; open to the public\; register here. \n\nThe McMullen Mus
 eum welcomes Dana Sajdi\, professor of history at Boston College\, for a di
 scussion of her latest book project. Landscaping Medieval Damascus charts t
 he history of a continuous tradition of representing the city in local pros
 e\, which began in the twelfth century and continued until the modern perio
 d.  Comparing this textual tradition to its European counterparts of painte
 d landscapes\, the talk explores the relentless and defensive nature of the
  tradition and shows it to be a practice of cityscaping in words. \n\nDana 
 Sajdi (PhD\, Columbia University\, 2002) is associate professor of history 
 at Boston College. She is the author of The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Lit
 eracy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant (2013\, Turkish and Arabic t
 ranslations in 2018)\; editor of Ottoman Tulips\, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure a
 nd Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century (2008\, in Turkish 2014) and coedito
 r of Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays in Arabic Literature and Culture
  in Memory of Madga Al-Nowaihi (2008). She is the recipient of several fell
 owships including from Princeton University\, Wissenschfatskolleg zu Berlin
  (EUME)\; Research Center for Anatolian Civilization\; MIT-Aga Khan Program
  for Islamic Architecture\; and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study 
 at Harvard University.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Publication Highlight: "Landscaping Medieval Damascus: A Ci
 ty in Words" by Professor Dana Sajdi
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 edieval_damascus_a_city_in_words_by_professor_dana_sajdi
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