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November 2024
Is this an Orientalist Painting?
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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