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Samira Fathi has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation on the urban and architectural developments of the city of Isfahan, Iran in the Qajar era in the UCSB Department of History of Art and Architecture. Prof. Nuha Khoury, who chaired her committee, said the dissertation “will no doubt become a touchstone for future scholarship.” Join us in congratulating Dr. Fathi.