Walid Akef is a PhD candidate in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. He specializes in the architectural history of the pre-modern Mediterranean world, with a focus on North Africa, southern Italy, and Iberia. His research...
Khushi studies women’s spaces of disobedience in the pre-modern Islamic world. She investigates notions of the “unseen” in a thirteenth-century Iberian manuscript on games, and seeks spaces where special rules obtained, where traces of disobedience...
Lauren Ehrmann's research focuses on North African and Andalusian manuscripts. She is interested in depictions of urban space, travel, cross-cultural exchange, and the relationship between manuscripts and the body. Prior to attending Harvard, Lauren was...
