Mapping Cities in the MENA Region

Zeido Zeido is a researcher focused on the urban heritage of Europe and the MENA region. He is especially interested in heritage in the context of conflicts and urban development. Zeido received his doctoral degree for his thesis on the heritage of Aleppo city at the Chair of Architectural Conservation at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU), where he remains an associated researcher. His research was supported by the generous funding of the Gerda Henkel foundation. He was also awarded funding from both the DFG Research Training Group 1913 and from the Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Urban Planning at BTU to publish this edited volume.

Suna Çagaptay is an associate professor of archaeology at Mugla Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey. Trained as an archaeologist and architectural historian, she works on Late Byzantine, Early Ottoman, Crusader, and principality-period architecture and city-making practices in the Eastern Mediterranean and the afterlives of the ancient cities. She received numerous fellowships, fieldwork, and research grants, including the Dumbarton Oaks, Aga Khan Islamic Art and Architecture at MIT, ANAMED, and Barakat Foundation at the University of Oxford.