Episode 73
Episode 57 in English: Pillagers and Preservation, a Convo with Leila Khoury
We talked to Leila Khoury, a Syrian-American graduate student who is currently working toward a Master of Architecture and Certificate in Historic Preservation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This was such an incredible conversation abo
The Queer Arabs · Alia, Ellie, Ahmed, Nadia and Adam
March 29, 20190m 43sExplicit
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Show Notes
We talked to Leila Khoury, a Syrian-American graduate student who is currently working toward a Master of Architecture and Certificate in Historic Preservation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This was such an incredible conversation about a topic that does not get nearly enough attention: the theft and cultural appropriation of cultural and historic objects from so much of the world by, namely, Europeans and Americans. Leila has a powerful piece called Near East, which critiques the forced migration of Levantine artifacts into European collections. For example, at the Louvre, Leila noticed some of these artifacts that…