IN-PERSON London Heritages. Section B
Abstract
The island of Djerba, located off Tunisia’s southeastern coast, is renowned for its distinctive cultural landscape shaped by centuries of Phoenician, Roman, Arab, and Berber influences. Characterised by dispersed rural settlements, whitewashed menzels (traditional homesteads), and a rich religious architectural heritage, Djerba embodies a vernacular system rooted in ecological balance and socio-spatial resilience. However, the island now finds itself at a critical juncture.
Majdi Faleh is an Academic Fellow and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage at the Nottingham Trent University Research Peak. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Bahrain and a Postdoctoral Fellow at THE Aga Khan Programme of Islamic Architecture (AKPIA) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He previously received several research grants sponsored by the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Council for Arab Australian Relations (Department of Foreign Affairs), the US Department of State (The Fulbright Programme), and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.
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