Women’s Fashions in Mamluk Cairo

Name: Women’s Fashions in Mamluk Cairo
Start: 2024-12-07T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-12-07T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square

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Lecture/Talk/Seminar

Sat, Dec 7, 2024

6 PM – 8 PM (GMT+2)

Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square

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Details

In Mamluk Cairo, women could circulate freely in the streets and markets. Despite regulations and occasional prohibitions regarding their appearance in public, Cairene women managed to be creative with new trends and fashions, often challenging the religious establishment and infuriating the ruling authorities. Based on a variety of texts, this talk is illustrated with images from artefacts, manuscripts and European drawings and paintings.

Speakers

Doris Behrens-Abouseif

Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

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