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| Zaki Aslan is the project coordinator of SITES Near East Programme at
ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and
Restoration of Cultural Property, Rome). He studied architecture at the
University of Jordan, Conservation of the Built Environment at the
University of Montreal in Canada, and completed his Ph.D. on the design of
protective structures for archaeological sites at University College London.
He also was an intern at the Bavarian State Conservation Office in Munich,
and studied at ICCROM. He was consultant to UNESCO, the European Union, and
ICCROM on projects in the field of heritage conservation in the Middle East,
and was a conservation architect and heritage manager at the Conservation
and Restoration Center in Petra (CARCIP). He worked on the Cultural
Resources Management Program in Jordan, and supervised conservation work at
the Umayyad Palace in Amman. |
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| Ghazi
Bisheh is an archeologist and former Director General of
the Jordanian Department of Antiquities. He studied archaeology at
the University of Jordan, and history of Islamic art and
architecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was
affiliated with the Jordanian Department of Antiquities for most of
the period between 1980 and 1999, and was its Director General twice
(1988 - 1991 & 1995 - 1999). He was also an associate professor
of archaeology at Yarmouk University during the early 1990s. He has
carried out excavation work both inside and outside Jordan in sites
such as Qasr al-Hallabat, Madaba, Carthage, Syrene, and Bahrain. He
is a member of the German Archeological Institute, and is the Deputy
Director of the International Council of Museums for the Arab
countries. |
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| Rifat
Chadirji is an architect and author. He is founder of the
architectural firm Iraq Consult and was its president from 1952 to
1978. Iraq Consult practiced basically in Iraq, and was a center of
research and development in architecture. He has dedicated his
efforts to research and writing since 1983. His designs and writings
represent some of the most serious efforts that aim at finding a
synthesis between modernity and regionalism in architecture. He has
been a visiting fellow at Harvard University, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and the Bartlett School of Architecture and
Planning. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British
Architects and the American Institute of Architects, and a recipient
of the Chairman's Award of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. He
is presently the Chairman of Chadirji Research Centre, where he
conducts his research work. His publications are primarily in Arabic
and include al-Ukhaidar and the Crystal Palace (1991), A Dialogue on
the Structure of Art and Architecture (1995), and numerous articles
in major Arabic periodicals. |
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Oleg Grabar is a historian of Islamic art and culture, and Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is a member of numerous academies and organizations including the American Philosophical Society, the German Archaeological Institute, and the British Academy. His writings have played a crucial role in defining new frameworks for studying the field of Islamic art and architecture during the past quarter century. He is the founding editor of Muqarnas, the annual journal on Islamic art and architecture. His many publications include The Formation of Islamic Art (1973), The Alhambra (1978), The Mediation of Ornament (1992), and The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem (1996). |
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| Amy
Newhall is an art historian, and a faculty member at the
Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Arizona. She
carried out her graduate work in Arabic Studies at the American
University in Cairo, and in the history of art at Harvard
University. She served as Director of the University of Arizona's
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, a federally designated National
Resource Center, from 1994 to 1999. As director, she took advantage
of Arizona's many units with strengths in arid lands studies to
promote cross-disciplinary approaches to Middle Eastern
environmental and development issues. As a member of the Southwest
Institute for Research on Women based at the University of Arizona,
she has participated in projects funded by the US Department of
Education and the Ford Foundation directed at developing gender
sensitive, comparative, and cross-disciplinary research and
pedagogical methods for Middle Eastern and other area studies.
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| Ammar Sajdi is an information technology consultant, and a partner and executive manager at Palestine Engineering Company, an engineering and software development and training firm with offices in Amman and Dubai. He studied Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Jordan. He is a member of the Arabization Committee for the software developer Oracle, and is a founding member of INT@J (Information Technology Association at Jordan). He also was a member of the official delegation that accompanied HM King Abdullah to the 2000 World Economic Forum at Davos - Switzerland. He received the first prize for best invention at the 2000 Arab Innovation and Invention Expo, held in Damascus - Syria. | ||
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