Modernism and the Middle East – Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century

This provocative collection of essays is the first book-length investigation of the development of modern architecture in the Middle East, ranging geographically from Jerusalem at the turn of the twentieth century to Libya under Italian colonial rule, postwar Turkey, and present-day Iraq. Sandy Isenstadt is assistant professor of modern architecture in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Kishwar Rizvi is assistant professor of Islamic architecture, also at Yale University. Other contributors are Nezar AlSayyad, Magnus Bernhardsson., Sibel Bozdogan, Waleed Khleif, Roy Kozlovsky, Brian McLaren, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Panayiota Pyla, Susan Slyomovics, Annabel Wharton, and Gwendolyn Wright.