# Paintings from the Private Houses of Abbasid Samarra: A Reassessment #### calendar\_today Date and Time **March 30, 2023** 06:00PM - 07:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **485 Broadway, Lower Auditorium, Cambridge** **CMES** and the **Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University** present a talk with **Fatma Dahmani** Harvard AKPIA Fellow, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Qayrawan, Tunisia Fatma Dahmani is a historian of Islamic art and architecture specializing in the early Islamic period and she is currently an AKPIA Fellow at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in history of art from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and has been Assistant Professor of History of Art at the University of Qayrawan (Kairouan) in Tunisia since 2020. She previously taught Islamic art and architecture at the INALCO-Paris (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales) and the American University of Beirut. She held a Barakat Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Oxford. Dahmani has been working for several years on a reassessment of Abbasid finds from the Abbasid city of Samarra (Iraq) and on a thorough study of Ernst Herzfeld’s unpublished records related to his excavations of the city. Her current project, during the AKPIA fellowship, concerns a reassessment of the paintings uncovered in the private houses of Samarra and her ongoing book project reexamines the entire corpus of paintings uncovered in the Abbasid capital. **Contact:** See also:- [ Ad Hoc or Co-Sponsored ](/eventseries/ad-hoc-or-co-sponsored) - [ History of Art & Architecture ](/research-field/history-art-architecture) - [ Iraq ](/research-region/iraq) - [ 2022-23 ](/academic-year/2022-23) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/node/1491206/event-feed.ics) Copy link link