Papers by Nader Sayadi
Metropolitan Museum Journal, 2024
Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries, 2024
book chapter in Skilled Immigrants in the Textile and Fashion Industries
HALI, 2023
The subject of ‘cultural appropriation’ is one that sparks fierce controversy in today’s world. H... more The subject of ‘cultural appropriation’ is one that sparks fierce controversy in today’s world. However, as Nader Sayadi recounts in this study of the 19th-century Syrian ‘aba garment, such practices were more complicated than an East-West narrative
International Journal of Islamic Architecture , 2019
This article investigates the emergence of the Savujbulagh (current-day Mahabad) garrison during ... more This article investigates the emergence of the Savujbulagh (current-day Mahabad) garrison during the transformation of the Ottoman-Qajar frontier into the bordered lands in the Mukri region in southern Azerbaijan and eastern Kurdistan in the late nineteenth century. During its short life between 1883 and the second decade of the twentieth century, the garrison was a manifestation of the exclusion of the Mukris from the Qajar political power structure and the transformation of the Ottoman-Qajar frontier into bordered lands in the Mukri region. By examining a newly found architectural drawing of the garrison and images from an album of photography by ‘Ali Khan Vali, this article suggests that the Savujbulagh garrison participated in the symbolic constitution and institutionalization of the processes of border-making in the last stages of the final establishment of the Ottoman-Qajar borders.
Book Reviews by Nader Sayadi
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2025
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Papers by Nader Sayadi
Book Reviews by Nader Sayadi