Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Sidney Smith Hall
100 St. George St., Rm 6036
Toronto
ON
M5S 3G3
Canada
ABOUT
Heba Mostafa received her doctorate from Cambridge University's Department of Architecture in 2012, where she also taught courses on Islamic art and architecture. She previously held positions at the American University in Cairo and the Arab Academy for Science and Technology. She holds a B.Sc in Architectural Engineering from Cairo University (2001) and an MA in Islamic Art and Architecture (2006) from the American University in Cairo. Between 2012 and 2014 she was the Sultan Post Doctoral Teaching Fellow/ Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, in the areas of History of Islamic Art, Architecture, and Urbanism. She is currently Assistant Professor of Islamic Art, Architecture and Urbanism at the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas. Her research focuses on the early development of Islamic architecture with an emphasis on the interaction between the political and religious in the articulation of early Islamic authority within the mosque, palace and shrine.
Discipline
Architecture & Urban Planning
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
History Of Architecture
Urban Studies
Mamluk Studies
Andalusi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Egypt
Fertile Crescent
Spain
Specialties
Islamic Art, Architecture And Urban History
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (native)
French (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| Architecture
| Cambridge University
MA
| 2006
| Islamic Art and Architecture
| American University in Cairo
BSc
| 2001
| Architecture
| Cairo University
Abstracts
The Dar al-Imara in Early Islam
The Nile as Nexus: Between Veneration and Mediation in the Islamic Period
“Never Forget the Fallen Caliph ‘Uthman!”: Performative Relics, Historical Trauma and Umayyad Legitimacy
