Middle Ground / Middle East: Religious Sites in Urban Contexts, part 1 of 5 (high resolution)
Year
2011
Description
This video is part one of five that document the symposium, "Middle Ground / Middle East: Religious Sites in Urban Contexts," held at the Yale School of Architecture over January 21 and 22, 2011. Its running time is 3:52:22. A low-resolution version of the same video file is also available.
Part one, the afternoon session of January 21, 2011, features:
Time and Identity
Introduction, Karla Britton, Yale University
The Fundamentalist City: Medieval Modernity, Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley
Religious Sites and Heritage Construction, Howayda Al-Harithy, American University of Beirut
Response, Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University
An Interpretation to Historic Cairo, Fathi Saleh, Library of Alexandria
Retreating into the Background: Mosque Architecture in the Early 21st Century, Mohammad al-Asad, Center for the Study of the Built Environment
