Excavations of the IFAO at Istabl Antar (Fustat) | Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform

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Excavations of the IFAO at Istabl Antar (Fustat)

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Theme:	Academic/Research
Format:	Lecture
Date:	Sep 23, 2014 6:00pm
Event Language:	English

This lecture is in memory of George Scanlon (1925-2014) by Dr. Roland-Pierre Gayraud.

Roland-Pierre Gayraud is a senior research fellow in the “Laboratoire d’Archéologie Médiévale et Moderne en Méditerranée” of the CNRS at the Aix-Marseille University (AMU). Since 1985 he is the director of the excavations of the Institut Français
d'Archéologie Orientale at Istabl Antar (Fustat). He has published extensively on Islamic archaeology and is a specialist in Islamic ceramics of the Mediterranean.

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