<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070000">Sahin Seminar Series</font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#070000">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#BC3532"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#BC3532"><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 21px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; color: rgb(192, 0, 0); "><b>Doing Urban History in the Fifteenth Century:</b></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 21px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; color: rgb(192, 0, 0); "><b>al-Maqrizi and his Book on Cairo</b></div></font></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010003">Nasser Rabbat</font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010003">Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture, MIT</font></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303">Tuesday, September 15, 2009</font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303">Building E51 Room 275</font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303">Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge, MA</font></div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#030303">4:30 – 6:00 pm</font></div></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div style="text-align: center; "><br></div><div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; ">Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Margo Collett at <a href="mailto:mcollett@mit.edu">mcollett@mit.edu</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Myriad Pro'; ">This lecture series is sponsored by MIT's History Faculty.</div></div></div></body></html>