ALEPPO: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Exhibition Opening Events

The opening event of Dr. Mahmud ZEYN EL ABİDİN's ALEPPO: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow Exhibition will be held on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 11:00 in the Blue Hall of GTU Congress and Culture Center. You can access the program flow of the event from the posters. The event is open to all interested parties.

ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) has chosen the theme of April 18 Monuments and Sites Day for 2025 as "Disaster and Conflict Resilient Heritage". This event is organized in cooperation with the GTÜ Architecture Department Exhibition Event Publication Committee, Cultural Heritage Protection Application and Research Center and ICOMOS Turkey National Committee within the context of the mentioned theme.

Dr. Mahmud ZEYN EL ABİDİN graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Architecture in 1994. He completed his master's degree in History of Architecture at Aleppo University in 2010. He completed his doctorate at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakif University in 2019. He has been working as an assistant professor at Yıldız Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture since 2013. He served as a consultant for TIKA (Republic of Turkey Prime Ministry Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency) in Syria between 2010-2012. He has been serving as the ÇEKÜL Foundation's Syria representative since 2009. He is a member of the ICOMOS Paris International Council of Monuments and Sites. In 2007, he won the Authorship Award for his book "Architecture of Ottoman Mosques" by the Organization of Islamic Capitals and Cities (OICC). In 2016, he also won the Authorship Award for his book "Ottoman Works in Damascus" by the Organization of Islamic Capitals and Cities (OI'CC) in Morocco. In 2021, he was awarded the "Fondazione Santagata" award in Italy for his project titled "Aleppo: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow". In 2024, he won the award from the same organization (OICC) for his scientific article titled "Aleppo City and Traditional Houses" in the Architecture category. Mahmud ZEYN EL ABİDİN, who has 11 books, has organized 20 photography exhibitions on Ottoman Architecture between 1996-2025 and contributed to various joint publications published in Turkish, Arabic and English. His latest book, "Aleppo City and Traditional Houses", was published by TİKA in 2019, first in Turkish and then in both Arabic and English. He has carried out many international projects, one of which is the "Surviving Ottoman Works in Saudi Arabia" Project, which was completed in 2010. He documented 100 Ottoman works in Saudi Arabia. The project was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey and was published as a book in Turkish and Arabic in 2010. It carries out the project called "Aleppo, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow". Within the scope of the project, architectural drawings, photographs and damage assessment of 50 historical monuments in Aleppo were made.

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