#  Mecca: The Lived City 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **May 3, 2019** 

 09:00AM - 05:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Hall 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

 The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present **Mecca: The Lived City**, a colloquium examining the ways in which the city of Mecca is imagined, remembered, represented, and visualized from the perspectives of history, literature, landscape architecture, and urban planning.

 Organized by: **Gareth Doherty**, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program, Harvard Graduate School of Design; and **William Granara**, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University.

   ![Street in Mecca, Studio Bound Archive](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/cmes/files/mecca_street.jpg?itok=AKTVXX6Q) 

 

Street in Mecca, Studio Bound ArchiveSchedule  
Thursday, May 2  
Keynote, Harvard Hall 102 5pm: [Mecca: From Revolution to Redevelopment](/event/mecca-revolution-redevelopment)   
**Rosie Bsheer**, Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University

 Friday, May 3  
All day: Panels, Harvard Hall 102

 9:00am: Opening remarks  
9:15: **Tyler Kynn** (Yale University): *Between Empire and Sacred Space: Mecca as a Global Space in the Early Modern World*  
10:15: **Ali Almajnooni** (SUNY Binghamton): *The Meccan Alley: The Decline of Vernacular Architecture*  
11:15: Break

 11:30: **Omer Shah** (Columbia University): *"Made in Makkah”: Smart Technology and Human Resources in the Holy City*  
12:30pm: Lunch break

 2:00: **Drew Wensley** (Moriyama & Teshima Planners, Toronto): *Mecca: City of Offering/City of Need*  
3:00: **Hussam Dakkak** (Studio Bound, London): *Makkah's Belongings*  
4:00: Break

 4:15: Discussion & wrap-up  
5:00: End of colloquium

 Download colloquium abstracts [here](/file_url/1717).

 **Contact:** [Liz Flanagan](mailto:elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu)



 

 



 

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- [ Anthropology ](/research-field/anthropology)
- [ History of Art & Architecture ](/research-field/history-art-architecture)
- [ Arabian Peninsula ](/research-region/arabian-peninsula)
- [ 2018-19 ](/academic-year/2018-19)
 
 

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