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Aliaa El Sandouby received her Ph.D. from the Department of Art History at UCLA in 2008. Her research and teaching interests include the material culture and built environment of the late medieval and early modern Arab Muslim world as well as the visual culture of the contemporary Middle East.

Aliaa El Sandouby

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Biography

Education

University of California, Los Angeles