DDDRRR. H. H. HANIANIANI HHHAMZAAMZAAMZA “A Mamluk City of the Dead:

The Northern Cemetery of Cairo”

DATE: Friday February 6, 2015

TIME: 1:30 p.m.

LOCATION: NMC Conference Room 200B

Bancroft Building

4 Bancroft Avenue

University of Toronto

Hani Hamza

Dr. Hani Hamza, a former student of Prof. G.T. Scanlon and now an independent

scholar, received his MA in Islamic art and architecture from the American

University in Cairo in 1997 and a PhD in Islamic art and architecture from Cairo

University in 2004. He is the author of The Northern Cemetery of Cairo (Costa

Mesta, California: Mazda, 2001), in which he provides an architectural analysis of

the cemetery along with more general information on the Mamluk period (1250 –

1517) and of a two volume work on the Mamluk Egypt, Misr al-mamlukiyya:

qira’at jadida (Mamluk Egypt: A new interpretation), (Alexandria: Dar al-‘ayn li-l-

nashr (2014). Dr. Hamza is also the author of numerous articles and has

presented his research on Mamluk architecture at several international

conferences.