Master of Science in Islamic Art, Architecture and Urbanism
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Urbanism and the Cultural Value of a Qatari Neighborhood: An Empirical Study and Narrative Synthesis
Dr. Akel Ismail Kahera
Dr Akel Ismail Kahera holds a PhD in Near Eastern Studies, with Honours from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. He currently serves as a Professor of Islamic Art, Architecture and Sustainable Urbanism at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Doha, Qatar. As an educator, Professor Kahera has over three decades of research, teaching and scholarly publications on the subject of Architectural History Theory and Criticism, Islamic Art and Architecture, Non-Western Architecture, Urbanism, The American Mosque, and Design Studio.
Dr. Muhammad Tarek N. Swelim
Dr. Swelim is currently Associate Professor of Urban Design and Architecture at College of Islamic Studies – HBKU. He holds a PhD (1994) in Islamic Art and Architecture from Harvard University and a Masters (1986) from American University, Egypt. He received his BA (1979) from Helwan University, Egypt. He has previously held positions as a Visiting Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Ain Shams University and the American University in Cairo.
Suzanne Ghadanfar
Suzanne Ghadanfar is a research fellow for the MSc program in Islamic Art, Architecture, and Urbanism. She holds a BSc in Architectural Engineering and an MSc in Urban Planning from Aleppo’s Faculty of Architectural Engineering in 2014. Prior to joining HBKU, Suzanne was appointed as a teaching assistant at the University of Architectural Engineering in Syria, where she taught interior and architectural design, urban planning, and composition and modelling.
The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge and Power
The Place of the Mosque: Genealogies of Space, Knowledge, and Power extends Foucault’s analysis, Of Other Spaces, and the “ideological conflicts which underlie the controversies of our day [and] take place between pious descendants of time and tenacious inhabitants of space.” This book uses Foucault’s framework to illuminate how mosques have been threatened in the past, from the Cordóba Mosque in the eighth century, to the development of Moorish aesthetics in the United States in the nineteenth century, to the clashes surrounding the building of mosques in the West in the twentieth and twen