Dr. Thorir Jonsson Hraundal
Dr. Thorir Jonsson Hraundal is Founder and Director of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Iceland since 2015 where he did a post -doctorate research project entitled Eastern Vikings in Arabic sources. He is widely published with many papers and contributions including “Vikings in Arabic Sources”, which is forthcoming in the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of […]
Dr. Sue Andrew. “Three hares: The Cross-Cultural Journey of a Medieval Motif”
Dr. Sue Andrew is an independent researcher whose studies at Edinburgh and Plymouth Universities encompassed sociology, anthropology, comparative religion, art history, and architectural conservation. Dr. Andrew presented a lecture titled: “Three hares: The cross-cultural journey of a medieval motif”. The intriguing image of three hares running in a circle, and sharing ears which form a […]
د. زاهي حواس
د. زاهي حواس عالم الآثار والمتخصص بعلم المصريات، شغل منصب الأمين العام للمجلس الأعلى للآثار في مصر، وكان أول وزير للدولة لشؤون الآثار. له عدة اكتشافات مهمة، منها اكتشاف قبر بناة الأهرامات المصرية في الجيزة. يعد حواس أهم عالم آثار والقوة الدافعة لمشروع المومياءات في مصر، ومن أهم المتحدثين حول موضوع الآثار، كما له العديد […]
د.حسن بدوي
د.حسن بدوي ، أستاذ الدراسات العربية الإسلامية والبيزنطية في جامعة أرسطوطاليس في اليونان،و أستاذ زائر في قسم التاريخ في جامعة الكويت، حاصل على الدكتوراه في العلاقات العربية والإسلامية والبيزنطية، وعمل أستاذا في جامعات عدة حول العالم، صدرت له العديد من الكتب والدراسات والمراجعات والترجمات حول تاريخ الإسلام وحضارة الاغريق، فضلا عن مشاركتة في العديد من […]
الأستاذة الدكتورة سهير زكي حواس
لأستاذة الدكتورة سهير زكي حواس أستاذة العمارة والتصميم العمراني بقسم الهندسة المعمارية، كلية الهندسة جامعة القاهرة، حاصلة على دكتوراه الفلسفة في الهندسة المعمارية من جامعة القاهرة، ورئيسة اللجنة الدائمة لحصر المباني ذات القيمة المتميزة للمنطقة الغربية بمحافظة القاهرة. لها العديد من الكتب والمؤلفات منها: موسوعة “القاهرة الخديوية – رصد وتوثيق عمارة وعمران القاهرة منطقة وسط […]
Professor Matthieu Honegger. “Twenty years of archaeological research on the origins of Kerma, the first kingdom of Nubia (Northern Sudan)”
Professor Matthieu Honegger teaches at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. He is also the head of the “Protection and valorization of the archaeological heritage of Kerma project”, supported by the Qatar-Sudan archaeological project. His most recent publication was included in Quaternary Science Review 130 and covered “Human occupations and environmental changes […]
Dr. Neil MacGregor. “A new museum for Berlin”
Dr. Neil MacGregor was Director of the National Gallery and of the British Museum, both in London. He presented a lecture titled: “A new museum for Berlin”. In the heart of Berlin, the old town palace of the Kings and the Kaisers is being rebuilt with a very different purpose: to house great collections of […]
Dr. Syed Mohamad Albukhary
Dr. Syed Mohamad Albukhary, Director of the Islamic Art Museum Malaysia, has made art his mission. A business graduate who spent almost two decades being inspired by the inescapable creativity of Italy, he returned to Malaysia to found the Islamic Art Museum Malaysia. Since the museum opened in 1998, he has been the director, supervising […]
Sussan Babaie. “Cooking in/of art: Cuisine as visual knowledge.”
Sussan Babaie, who teaches the arts of Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Her lecture entitled “Cooking in/of art: Cuisine as visual knowledge.” [presto_player id=8761]
Dr. Gaetano Palumbo. “Between East and West: Qusayr ‘Amra and the representation of royal power in early Islam”
Dr. Gaetano Palumbo is an honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London-Qatar campus. In his lecture : “Between East and West: Qusayr ‘Amra and the representation of royal power in early Islam”, Dr. Palumbo discussed the paintings, including those recently found following an ongoing conservation intervention, in the framework of a […]