Project MUSE®: Change Over Time - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Change Over Time.daily12026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 1 (2011) through current issueLatest Articles: Change Over TimeTWOProject MUSE®Change Over Time2153-05482153-053xLatest articles in Change Over Time. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Amman: City of Multilayered Refuge
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A typical city view of Amman, with concrete and white stone houses creeping up its hills. However, this view is also one of the sedimentary formations of refuge in Amman. This is Jabal al-Nathif, a hilly neighborhood that contains the structures of multiple groups of refugees, from Ottoman Circassians to Palestinian and Syrian refugees. (Photo by Khalid Ali, 2013)In the summer of 2018, seven years into the uprising turned war in Syria, I arrived at a Palestinian refugee camp in Amman. I was there to interview a Syrian woman. She had left Damascus in 2013 when Palestinian relatives offered her an apartment, rent-free. The apartment, part of a multistory concrete building, was self-constructed by Palestinian
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/545/image/coversmallAmman: City of Multilayered Refuge2026-03-06text/htmlen-USAmman: City of Multilayered Refuge2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®918552026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06Construction, Destruction, Reconstruction: Radical Hope, Where Are You?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984744
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Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Doha, Qatar. (Photo by author, 2023)The Arab Region is witnessing the construction of a wide range of buildings dedicated to cultural heritage, art, and culture. Across several countries such as Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Saudi Arabia, museums, libraries, and art and cultural centers are being built on a monumental scale in an attempt to give cities a new narrative and identity. In the process of making and remaking this identity, “star” architects, often not from the Arab Region, have been chosen to imagine and design these new megaprojects. In Abu Dhabi, UAE, at least three such star architect–designed museums have been built or are in various stages of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/545/image/coversmallConstruction, Destruction, Reconstruction: Radical Hope, Where Are You?2026-03-06text/htmlen-USConstruction, Destruction, Reconstruction: Radical Hope, Where Are You?2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®215152026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06Reconstruction, Repair, and Rehabilitation: A View from Mosul
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984745
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Mosul Old Town. (Photo by Frazer Hay, 2023)During the Second World War, teams of international experts,1 famously exemplified by the Monuments Men, set the priorities for salvage during the conflict and for heritage reconstruction in its wake. Since then, we have become accustomed to foreign governments, multilateral agencies like UNESCO, foundations, and external experts prescribing lists and identifying value through the mapping of cultural resources on foreign soil. Iraq has been the subject of such extensive mapping and extrinsic decision making in the context of the Gulf War (1990–91), the Iraq War (2003–11), and now following the insurgency of the Islamic State (IS). While site listing and monitoring is now
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/545/image/coversmallReconstruction, Repair, and Rehabilitation: A View from Mosul2026-03-06text/htmlen-USReconstruction, Repair, and Rehabilitation: A View from Mosul2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®767182026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06Authenticating “Locality”: A Postcolonial History of Heritage and Preservation in Qatar
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984746
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Qatar University campus. (Photo by Trinidad Rico, 2019)For the past two decades, the visibility of heritage developments in the Arabian Peninsula has been on the rise, bringing much attention to one of its key players, Qatar. This intensification is not only due to high-profile projects of regeneration that revolve around the safeguarding of heritage resources in innovative ways—the Msheireb Downtown Doha project in Qatar, Dubai Heritage Village in Khor Dubai in the UAE, the Historic Jeddah Development Program in Saudi Arabia. It is also a visibility enhanced by the important roles that leaders across this region have taken in global heritage affairs. While it is undeniable that parts of the Arab Region1 have been
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/545/image/coversmallAuthenticating “Locality”: A Postcolonial History of Heritage and Preservation in Qatar2026-03-06text/htmlen-USAuthenticating “Locality”: A Postcolonial History of Heritage and Preservation in Qatar2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®660472026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06Impact of Conflict Dynamics on Heritage Reconstruction and Post-Conflict Recovery: A Comparative Study of Mosul, Iraq, and Benghazi, Libya
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/984747
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A conflict-damaged street in Benghazi’s historic center. (Photo by Muftah Al Khashmi, 2018)The role of cultural heritage in armed conflicts remains significantly underestimated. When cultural heritage is deliberately targeted, mobilized, or manipulated, it can fuel conflicts, thereby becoming one of the initial casualties of war. Recent conflicts across the Arab Region, particularly since the Arab Spring, have caused extensive damage to built heritage. In Iraq and Libya, as in other Arab countries, the devastation has been aggravated by weak economies, prolonged neglect, mismanagement, and the limited institutional capacity of the heritage sector. The conflict dynamics, the conflict resolution, and the conflict
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/545/image/coversmallImpact of Conflict Dynamics on Heritage Reconstruction and Post-Conflict Recovery: A Comparative Study of Mosul, Iraq, and Benghazi, Libya2026-03-06text/htmlen-USImpact of Conflict Dynamics on Heritage Reconstruction and Post-Conflict Recovery: A Comparative Study of Mosul, Iraq, and Benghazi, Libya2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®1148452026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06Author Biographies
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Lynn Meskell is Penn Integrates Knowledge (PIK) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology in the School of Arts and Sciences, professor in historic preservation at the Weitzman School of Design, and curator in the Middle East and Asia sections at the Penn Museum. Currently she serves as AD White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. She holds honorary professorships at Oxford University and Liverpool University; Shiv Nadar in India; and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Over the past decade Lynn has conducted an institutional ethnography of UNESCO World Heritage, tracing the politics of governance and sovereignty and the subsequent
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-18T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/545/image/coversmallAuthor Biographies2026-03-06text/htmlen-USAuthor Biographies2026-03-062026TWOProject MUSE®62672026-05-18T00:00:00-05:002026-03-06