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Hello, welcome to my website!

My name is Leena Ghannam, and I am a Ph.D. student in Art History, specializing in the early and pre-modern Islamic world. My research centers on the interaction between portable arts and architecture in the eastern Mediterranean; artistic syncretism; the history of perception; spoliation and reuse; environmental history; and the archaeology and conservation of urban public spaces. I wrote my M.A. thesis on Fatimid Shi'i architectural iconography at the American University in Cairo and my B.A. thesis on metalwork between Christian and Islamic cultures at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.