Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World

Expertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic WorldExpertise and Architecture in the Modern Islamic World explores how architectural traditions and practices were shared and exchanged across national borders throughout the world, departing from a narrative that casts European actors as the importers and exporters of Islamic designs and skills. Looking to cases that touch on empire building, modernization, statecraft and diplomacy, this book examines how these processes have been contingent on a web of

The book proceeds towards the organising of a theoretical framework

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The book examines how students who learn to write plays and work with a professional playwright in residence empower themselves and gives instructors tools for teaching the process of playwriting in a way that makes space for the student voice

A tour de force of nuanced interdisciplinary scholarship

and a discussion on human intuition

Pak Tong Cheuk also draws on the auteur and genre theories

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Winner of the TaPRA prize for Editing 2017

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