PUBLISHED ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, CONFERENCE PAPERS

CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND LECTURES

Howayda Al-Harithy

• Apr 25 2006 “Negotiating the Built Heritage,” Center for Contemporary Arab Studies,Georgetown University, Washington DC
• Apr 10 2006 “Decorative Traditions in Islamic Architecture: Origins and Shifts,” Muslim Women in the Arts Organization, Maryland, USA
• Feb 23 2006 “Invisible Boundaries, Visible Presence: Persian Cultural Influence on Medieval Cairo,” 2006 CAA (College Art Association) Conference, held in Boston, February 23-25, 2006
• Nov 14 2005 “The Politics of the Reconstruction Project in Downtown Beirut,” hosted by Professor Michael Hudson, Georgetown University

Daniel Drennan

• October 2005: represented the graphic design program at ICOGRADA [International Council of Graphic Design Associations] Copenhagen, Denmark

Sylvia Shorto

• “Stages of Mimicry: The Agra House of the Maharaj Rana of Dholpur.” Paper presented at the Society of Architectural Historians 59th Annual Meeting, Savannah, GA, April 2006

Mona Harb

• Invited discussant:
• Acted as a principal discussant at the APERAU (Association pour la promotion de l’Enseignement et de la Recherche en Aménagement et Urbanisme) international conference Conquérir la ville. Réappropriation urbaine : acteurs, mécanismes et enjeux, organized by ALBA (Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts) and IFPO (Institut Français du Proche Orient), June 1-2, 2006.
• Acted as a principal discussant at the conference The Comprehensive Master Plan for the Lebanese Terrirories: Principles and Choices organized by the Consultative Center for Studies and Documentation, Beirut, 29-30 June, 2006.
• Acted as a principal discussant at the conference on Cities and Globalization: Challenges for Citizenship, organized by Heinrich Boell Foundation and Institut Français du Proche Orient, hosted by the American University of Beirut, Beirut, December 9-11, 2005.
• Acted as a discussant at the workshop Cooperation Across Ideological Divides in the Middle East, organized by Janine Clark and Jillian Schwedler, Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, April 8-13, 2005.

Walid Sadek

• Panelist at War of Images – Modernity and its Discontinuities, a conference organized by the Federal Cultural Foundation and House of World Cultures, Berlin, May 5-7, 2006.
• Panelist at Coffee Break, a conference organized by Manifesta International Organization in Nicosia, Cyprus, January 26, 2006.
• Panelist at Zawaya Encounters, Madina Theatre, Beirut, November 15, 2005.

Mona Fawaz

• World Congress of Sociology. Durban, South Africa. Deboulet, A. and Fawaz, M. Urban restructuring, highways and conflicts in Beirut’s irregular settlements.
• Habitat II +10, Beirut, Lebanon, Fawaz, M. An Evaluation of Arab State Policies vis-à-vis Tenure Security and their Commitment in the Habitat II Summit
• Workshop:
  The Production of Space in Beirut in the 1950s. AUB, Beirut, Lebanon
  Organized a closed one-day workshop that grouped twenty urban researchers and abroad from Lebanon and during which I presented the main findings of the current research I am conducting on the production of low-income neighborhoods in Beirut during the 1950s-60s, notably in the eastern suburbs of Beirut.

ABSTRACTS AND PROCEEDINGS

Mona Harb

• Harb M., “Pious Entertainment: Al-Saha Traditional Village”, ISIM Review ‘Popular Piety’, 17, 2006, p.10-11.

CONSULTANCY REPORTS

Mona Harb

• Harb M., City Development Strategy for Sour & City Development Strategy for Jounieh, two consultancy reports prepared for the World Bank Cities Development Strategy (CDS) Project in Lebanon, Ministry of Interior, Beirut, subcontracted by Kamal Hamdan Consultants (Consultation and Research Institute, CRI); May 2006.

Mona Fawaz

• Fawaz, M. “Good Planning Practices in West Asian countries: a critical overview”, in: The Challenges of Decentralization and Local Governance in the Arab World.” Beirut: LCPS.
• UN-ESCWA: Developing and assessment of the performance of Arab States in tenure security and good governance issues in relation to the UN-Habitat II+10 summit in Vancouver in June 2006.

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Mona Harb

• Harb M., “From Politics to Culture: Hizbullah’s Conservative Art and Tourism in Lebanon”, paper presented with Lara Deeb at the panel “Islamization of Arts, Entertainment and Leisure Activities: Sensibilities in Motion”, organized by Karin Van Nieuwkerk, WOCMES 2 (World Congress for Middle-Eastern Studies), Amman, June 11-18, 2006.
• Harb M., “Understanding Cities from a Planner’s Perspective”, paper presented at the panel “Cities & Globalization: Challenges for Citizenship”, organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation, WOCMES 2 (World Congress for Middle-Eastern Studies), Amman, June 11-18, 2006.
• Harb M., “Hizballah: An Alternative Policy Network in Post-War Lebanon”, individual paper accepted and presented at the annual Middle-East Studies Association (MESA) meeting, Washington D.C., 19-22 November 2005.
• Harb M., “Islamizing Entertainment and Tourism Activities in Lebanon”, paper presented at the conference (In)Visible Histories: The Politics of Placing the Past, organized by the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Amsterdam, 2-3 September 2005.
• Participated to the IFPO/AUB/LU research seminar “Space & Politics”, April 2006.

Zeina Maasri

• (May 2006) Discussant on the panel: “Dwelling and Retail for the Affluent” in the City Debates conference edition of 2006, “Spaces of the Rich: Consumer/Citizen Practices in Affluent Beirut”, organized by the Urban Planning and Design Program at the American University of Beirut.
• (April 2006) Presented a Paper entitled “Adventures and Challenges in Arab Publication Design” in Kitabat: Arabic Calligraphy and Typography Conference, hosted by the American University of Dubai, UAE. (upon invitation) Abstract published, proceedings forthcoming.

Walid Sadek

• Presenting excerpts from “File: Public Time” with Bilal Khbeiz and Fadi Abdallah at the symposium Public Time held at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, May 26, 2006.

ARTICLES

Howayda Al-Harithy

• “Islamic Architecture: Form, Function and Meaning by Robert Hillenbrand [Book Review],” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol.74, no.1 (Oxford University Press: Spring 2006): 232-235
• “[Reframing] World Heritage,” Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, vol.17, no.1 (UC Berkeley, California: Fall 2005): 7-17
• “Female Patronage of Mamluk Architecture in Cairo,” in Beyond the Exotic: Women’s Histories in Islamic Societies, ed. Amira Sonbol (Syracuse University Press: 2005): 321-335

Mona Harb

• Harb M., “La Dahiye de Beyrouth: parcours d’une stigmatisation urbaine, consolidation d’un territoire politique” [Dahiye of Beirut : Process of an Urban Stigmatisation, Consolidation of a Political Territory], in Depaule J.-Ch. (dir.), Les mots de la stigmatisation urbaine, Paris : UNESCO-MSH, 2006, p. 199-224.
• Harb M. & Leenders R., “Know Thou Enemy: Hizballah and the Politics of Perception”, Third World Quarterly, Special Issue, Vol.25(5) 2005, p.173-197.

Walid Sadek

• “In Health but Mostly in Sickness: the autobiography of Moustafa Farroukh” in Out of Beirut, published by The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 2006.
• “A Room with a Conversation in the Middle” in Notes for an Art School, published and commissioned by Manifesta International Foundation and Manifesta 6 in Cyprus, 2006.

EXHIBITIONS

Walid Sadek

• “Love is Blind” in the exhibition Out of Beirut curated by Suzanne Cotter at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 13 May-16 July, 2006.
• File: Public Time”, a collection of texts written in collaboration with Bilal Khbeiz and Fadi Abdullah presented at HomeWorks III, a forum for cultural practices organized by Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts, at Madina Theatre, Beirut, November, 2005.

Leila Musfy

• “Istanbul as felt by…” by invitation, Mimar Sinan University, Turkey, May 2006

HONORS AND AWARDS

Howayda Al-Harithy

• Visiting Scholar, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC
• Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley (deferred de to accepting the position at Georgetown University)
• Keynote Speaker, Muslim Women in the Arts, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA

Mona Harb

• Visiting Fellow, Aga Khan Program, Harvard University; launched the cooperation between the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the AUB MUP/MUD programs; met with faculty and students; attended lectures.

PUBLICATIONS & DESIGN WORK

DESIGN PROJECTS

Zeina Maasri

• Zawaya: A periodical on emerging cultural production in the Arab world
  Diffaf Éditions, Beirut. (Zawaya is funded by the Ford Foundation).
• Publication design (with Mind the Gap)
  — Art direction of issue number 12-13 October 2005.
  — Member of the editorial board since 2002.
• Design of program leaflet, flyers and invitations for the public event:
  Zawaya Encounters, November 2005, Beirut.

Sylvia Shorto

• “Building for the Business of Bermuda,” Traditional Buildings and Settlements Review, vol xvii, #ii, Spring 2006
• “A Tomb of One’s Own: Governor’s House, Lahore,” in Peter Scriver and Vikram Prakash, eds., Constructing Colonial India. London: Routledge Architext Series, 2006

Leila Musfy

• Memories of the South: book, that documents villages of the South, published by South for Construction.
• On going design work: Book on “Women’s Memories”, summer 2006

PROJECTS CITED OR PUBLISHED

Leila Musfy

• Work Published in: World Wide Identity, October 2005, Communication Arts, July 2005, Istanbul Exhibit “Istanbul as felt by…”, exhibit catalog, May 2006

Zeina Maasri

• (2006) Awarded “Un des Plus beaux Livres Suisses 2005” (Most beautiful Swiss Books 2005) for the Book design (with Mathieu Christe, Switzerland) of: Térritoire Méditerranée, ProHelvetia Fondation Suisse pour la Culture, (Switzerland 2004).
  The award is offered annually by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. Out of 404 books submitted in 2005, only 32 were selected by the jury for the annual award.
• The awarded books were exhibited in the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich (21May–11June 2006) and published in the annual award catalogue “Die Schönsten Schweizer Bücher, 2005”.
• Greetings from Beirut (eds. Maasri and Lutz Shift! Berlin 2003) was reviewed in Becherer, R. “Talking in the City”. Design Issues v. 22 no. 3 (Summer 2006) p. 74-7
• Zawaya: A periodical on emerging cultural production in the Arab world and the book Mapping Sitting on portraiture and Photography (eds. Maasri et al, Beirut 2002 and 2005) were cited in François Cheval’s (Head conservator of the Musée Nicéphore Niépce, France) preface to the book Syrie, Liban, Palestine: Le grand Tour, Isthme Editions Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Paris 2005) p. 12