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November 2024

Is this an Orientalist Painting?

November 21 @ 12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
The Heyman Center for the Humanities, 74 Morningside Drive
New York, NY 10027 United States
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The Society of Fellows hosts the Thursday Lecture Series (TLS), which runs regularly throughout the academic year. The Fall Semester TLS, our Fellows present their own work, chaired by Columbia faculty. Is this an Orientalist Painting? Lecture by Iheb Guermazi Chaired by Manan Ahmed In 1897, Ivan Aguéli, a young Swedish painter and anarchist activist, converted to Islam. Five years later, he moved to Egypt to become the main spokesman of an Arab Sufi reformist movement based in Cairo. Aguéli- the first…

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