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&#160;September 21Premises for PracticeHashim Sarkis, Dean, MIT School of Architecture &#38; PlanningOctober 5When Politics and Architecture CollideHisham Munir, Architect &#38; Planner, Hisham Munir &#38; AssociatesOctober 19The Role of Micro-architecture and Topography in Early Mughal PaintingMika Natif, The George Washington University, AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral FellowNovember 9A Shift to Modernity in the Art and Architecture of Damascus, 1860-1963Anas Soufan, AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow&#160;Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT77 Mass Ave. Room 10-390Tel  617 253 1400Fax  617 258 8172email akpiarch@mit.edu&#160;