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A Meeting of Afghan and Western Civilizations in the 15th Century - Bihzad of Herat & Bellini of Venice - Part 2

A Lecture in 2 parts by Professor Michael Barry
(Video production by Aimone Angelini Rota)

Michael Barry was born in New York City, raised in France and partly in Afghanistan, received his B.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, his post-graduate diploma in Anthropology from Cambridge University, his M.A. from McGill University, and his Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

Michael served as a Lecturer in Islamic Culture at Princeton University from 2004 to 2017, and is University Professor at the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul since fall 2017. Over the past 35 years, his work in Afghanistan, sometimes in the most dangerous battlefield conditions, has ranged from anthropological research to defense of human rights and coordinating humanitarian assistance in the field for the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights, Médecins du Monde, and the United Nations.

Michael is a recognized expert on Islamic art. He conceived, in collaboration with Dr. Navina Haidar, the reorganization of the New York Metropolitan Museum’s galleries of Islamic art prior to their reopening in fall 2011, and has served as consultant to the Aga Khan Trust for Culture on a variety of museum issues and lectures.

Michael has published extensively in both his writing languages, English and French; his academic works have been translated into Persian and half a dozen European languages; and he holds seven literary prizes from France and Iran.