Sandy Isenstadt is assistant professor of modern architecture in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Kishwar Rizvi is assistant professor of Islamic art and architecture, also at Yale University. Other contributors are Nezar AlSayyad, Magnus Bernhardsson, Sibel Bozdogan, Waleed Khleif, Roy Kozlovsky, Brian McLaren, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Panayiota Pyla, Susan Slyomovics, Annabel Wharton, and Gwendolyn Wright.

"This book is a product of a very impressive scholarly effort to contextualize the problem of modernity in the Middle East. . . . Modernism and the Middle East lays the foundation for future research on this underexplored topic in Western scholarship and it is a unique contribution to the sophisticated multidisciplinary discourse on modernism in general."

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation / Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar RizviPart One | Colonial Constructions1. Jerusalem Remade / Annabel Wharton2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya / Brian L. McLarenPart Two | Building the Nation3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad / Magnus T. Bernhardsson4. Baghdad's Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building / Panayiota I. Pyla5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s / Sibel Bozdogan6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel / Roy Kozlovsky7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo / Waleed Khleif and Susan SlyomovicsPart Three | Overviews and Openings9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge / Gwendolyn Wright10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context / Nezar AlsayyadBibliographyContributorsIndex

Sandy Isenstadt is assistant professor of modern architecture in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Kishwar Rizvi is assistant professor of Islamic art and architecture, also at Yale University. Other contributors are Nezar AlSayyad, Magnus Bernhardsson, Sibel Bozdogan, Waleed Khleif, Roy Kozlovsky, Brian McLaren, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Panayiota Pyla, Susan Slyomovics, Annabel Wharton, and Gwendolyn Wright.

"This book is a product of a very impressive scholarly effort to contextualize the problem of modernity in the Middle East. . . . Modernism and the Middle East lays the foundation for future research on this underexplored topic in Western scholarship and it is a unique contribution to the sophisticated multidisciplinary discourse on modernism in general."

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation / Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar RizviPart One | Colonial Constructions1. Jerusalem Remade / Annabel Wharton2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya / Brian L. McLarenPart Two | Building the Nation3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad / Magnus T. Bernhardsson4. Baghdad's Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building / Panayiota I. Pyla5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s / Sibel Bozdogan6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel / Roy Kozlovsky7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo / Waleed Khleif and Susan SlyomovicsPart Three | Overviews and Openings9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge / Gwendolyn Wright10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context / Nezar AlsayyadBibliographyContributorsIndex

Sandy Isenstadt is assistant professor of modern architecture in the Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Kishwar Rizvi is assistant professor of Islamic art and architecture, also at Yale University. Other contributors are Nezar AlSayyad, Magnus Bernhardsson, Sibel Bozdogan, Waleed Khleif, Roy Kozlovsky, Brian McLaren, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Panayiota Pyla, Susan Slyomovics, Annabel Wharton, and Gwendolyn Wright.

"This book is a product of a very impressive scholarly effort to contextualize the problem of modernity in the Middle East. . . . Modernism and the Middle East lays the foundation for future research on this underexplored topic in Western scholarship and it is a unique contribution to the sophisticated multidisciplinary discourse on modernism in general."

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Modern Architecture and the Middle East: The Burden of Representation / Sandy Isenstadt and Kishwar RizviPart One | Colonial Constructions1. Jerusalem Remade / Annabel Wharton2. Modern Architecture, Preservation, and the Discourse on Local Culture in Italian Colonial Libya / Brian L. McLarenPart Two | Building the Nation3. Visions of Iraq: Modernizing the Past in 1950s Baghdad / Magnus T. Bernhardsson4. Baghdad's Urban Restructuring, 1958: Aesthetics and the Politics of Nation Building / Panayiota I. Pyla5. Democracy, Development, and the Americanization of Turkish Architectural Culture in the 1950s / Sibel Bozdogan6. Temporal States of Architecture: Mass Immigration and Provisional Housing in Israel / Roy Kozlovsky7. Modernisms in Conflict: Architecture and Cultural Politics in Post-1967 Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan8. Palestinian Remembrance Days and Plans: Kafr Qasim, Fact and Echo / Waleed Khleif and Susan SlyomovicsPart Three | Overviews and Openings9. Global Ambition and Local Knowledge / Gwendolyn Wright10. From Modernism to Globalization: The Middle East in Context / Nezar AlsayyadBibliographyContributorsIndex