From Polis to Madina: New Research into Byzantine and Umayyad Urbanism in the Near East

This colloquium, convened by Morgan Dirodi, was held on Saturday 4 February 2012 at Trinity College, Oxford. Speakers were Alan Walmsley (University of Copenhagen), Louise Blanke (University of Copenhagen), Fanny Bessard (Institut français du Proche-Orient, Paris), Elias Khamis (Oxford University), Katia Cytryn-Silverman (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Luke Treadwell (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford), and Hugh Kennedy (SOAS). More