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“Goodbye Mshatta”: Connections and Disconnections on Berlin's Museum Island

This essay is concerned with a contemporary art intervention in Berlin's Museum of Islamic Art, in the context of the Mshatta Façade's move. Sketching out Mshatta's relocation history, the essay highlights how the dynamic of connection and disconnection plays out in a museum setting a...

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Published in:Review of Middle East studies (Tucson, Ariz.) Ariz.), 2022-06, Vol.56 (1), p.123-127
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