“The larger dynamics aside, this brisk walkthrough across the institutional landscape of the region equally illuminates how architecture has been essential in making new cultural institutions like museums, and in affirming the role of existing ones, at political, societal, and urban levels.”

Publication: “Building Arab Institutions: The Palestinian Museum in Regional Context,” in Architecture of Commonality: Grounds for Hope, 32-49, edited by Tomà Berlanda. Berlin: Aga Khan Award for Architecture and ArchiTangle (2004).

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Image: Amin Alsaden