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Associate Professor of Art History, The University of Texas at Austin

The Omari Mosque of Gaza. Mohammed Alafrangi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

January 17, 2024

Gaza’s oldest mosque, destroyed in an airstrike, was once a temple to Philistine and Roman gods, a Byzantine and Catholic church, and had engravings of Jewish ritual objects

Stephennie Mulder, The University of Texas at Austin

Gaza’s Omari Mosque embodies the history of Gaza – as a site of frequent destruction, but also of renewal, writes a scholar of Islamic architecture and archaeology.

A 1932 photograph showing the minaret of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri, Mosul. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

September 27, 2017

On Yom Kippur, remembering Mosul’s rich and diverse past

Stephennie Mulder, The University of Texas at Austin

As Mosul rebuilds, its history is a reminder that people of many faiths lived in cooperation in the city. In the city was the Tomb of Prophet Jonah, venerated by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike.

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