Building Sharjah

Building Sharjah tells the tale of how modern architecture unfurled across the United Arab Emirates’ third-largest city.

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Alia Al Sabi pores over back issues of Sharjah-based magazine Al Azmenah Al Arabiya to gather a sense of the concerns and questions voiced by local residents in the face of unrelenting change to the social and physical landscape around them.

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The text of my chapter “Schools for the Arab Homeland: Kuwait’s Educational Mission in Sharjah” in @BuildingSharjah. It highlights the Pan-Arabist & anti-colonial dimensions of Kuwaiti educational assistance to the Trucial States (future UAE), 1950s-1970s https://t.co/iFLOY1Nkvg

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Further, we've kept this feed about works by those
whose contributions to @BuildingSharjah make for a multi-faceted window into a fascinating city.
https://t.co/Hg8p0Rdq4w

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Here is a thread of writers & topics featured in our new book @BuildingSharjah just published by @Birkhauser. We are proud to present our 19 contributors, including those who know this city well & others whose perspective contributes to understanding Sharjah in a global context.

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In new interview👇with @KepelGilles @AlMonitor, @SultanAlQassemi lays out some compact, wide-ranging context of our recent book @BuidingSharjah published by @Birkhauser. This thread includes themes of the book mentioned in conversation
https://t.co/Jgozud7qkm

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As it is a reigning topic in the region, the dialogue also considered questions around preservation of modern architecture. We're happy to include 2 pieces by architect and adviser to @sharjaharch Mona El Mousfy, whose work has influenced regional discussions.

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At a campus for Volvo and Caterpillar, architect and researcher @roberto__fabbri finds a connection between Kuwaiti entrepreneurialism and Sharjah’s hopes to incubate industrial enterprises.

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Here is a thread of writers & topics featured in our new book @BuildingSharjah just published by @Birkhauser. We are proud to present our 19 contributors, including those who know this city well & others whose perspective contributes to understanding Sharjah in a global context.

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Curator Hammad Nasar maps out the emotional, cultural, and geopolitical relevance a cricket stadium bestowed on Sharjah in the 1980s.

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Longtime Sharjah resident @KVShamsudheen recalls the early, international community of one of Sharjah’s first large-scale residential development projects, 1000 Villas.

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The Egyptian firm that designed Cairo’s memorable Maspero building, Momen Architects, also assembled a family of municipal buildings for Sharjah—as architectural historian Mohamed Elshahed @elshahedmo highlights.

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Architectural historian Michael Kubo @microkubo traces the global links that helped materialize Sharjah’s most recognizable hotel, the Inter-Continental, then known as Radisson Blu, now closed.

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Artist Ammar Al Attar @ammarmak interviews studio photographer Prem Ratnam about how his lifework is also a recording of Sharjah’s changing landscapes.