Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue
Amy Landau, PhD, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
April 15, 2015
5:00 p.m.
Oriental Institute, Breasted Hall
1155 E. 58th St., Chicago, IL
This lecture series is presented in conjunction with the special exhibit “A Cosmopolitan City: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Old Cairo” at the Oriental Institute Museum in collaboration with The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. The lecturers present on a range of topics related to the history, art, and archaeology of Medieval Fustat (Old Cairo).
Sponsored by the The Franke Institute for the Humanities, The Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.