S5E5 Teaching Islamic Art in Schools, with Rizwan Iqbal

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S6E2: The Story of a Stone: Fatimids in Ethiopia, with Mikael Muehlbauer

This month’s podcast episode takes us to Ethiopia, specifically the rock-cut church of Wuqro Cherqos in Tigray where a tantalisingly cryptic piece of carved stone can tell us a whole story of interconnection up and down the Red Sea. This is a journey of merchants, artistic ideas, ...  Show more

S6E1: The Armenian Architects of the Ottoman East, with Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan

In this new podcast episode, the first in our series on Peripheries, we discuss the place of Armenian architects in the towns and cities of eastern Anatolia in the late Ottoman empire. Our guest is Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan, Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Lincoln, whe ...  Show more

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