MimarCast 13|ملحمة درامية وراء جامع السلطان المؤيد شيخ ، وقصة الأستاذ المصري الغامضة مع د.طارق سويلم

The fourth and final part of our interview with Dr. Tarek Swelim, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. In this series, we discuss Dr. Tarek's detailed study of the Ibn Tulun and Al-Mu'ayyad Sheikh Mosques in Cairo. He also recounts the influence of his father, the renowned Egyptologist Dr. Nabil Swelim, on his career, as well as his own transition from studying Egyptology and working in tourism to studying Islamic art and architecture at the American University in Cairo and later Harvard University. Dr. Tarek studied Egyptology at the Faculty of Tourism, Helwan University, before pursuing Islamic art and architecture at the American University in Cairo and then Harvard University. Dr. Tarek has a long and distinguished career in tourism, having led American tour groups in Egypt and various countries throughout the Islamic world. He has also taught and lectured at numerous prestigious universities and institutions, including Oxford University, Stanford University, the British Museum, the Barakat Trust in London, the University of Leuven in Belgium, and the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (House of Islamic Antiquities) in Kuwait. Dr. Tarek Swelim Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture College of Islamic Studies | Hamad Bin Khalifa University PhD in Islamic Art and Architecture | Harvard University | 1994 MA in Islamic Art and Architecture| American University in Cairo | 1986 BSc in Tour Guiding and Egyptology | Helwan University | 1979 This interview is conducted in collaboration with the AUC Regional Architecture Collections as part of the Oral History Program:   / auc.rac