# Alya Karame AKPIA Fellow – Spring 2023 ![karame](/sites/g/files/omnuum4426/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/history-artsarchitecture/files/karame_photo_haa_website.jpeg?itok=nACxjP_b) location\_on 485 Broadway, Room 411 Cambridge, MA 02138 email [akarame@fas.harvard.edu ]() Dr. Alya Karame specializes in Islamic manuscripts. Her book project on a forgotten corpus of medieval Qur’ans has been supported by numerous grants and is due for publication in 2023. She is currently a research associate at the Orient-Institut Beirut (2023-2024). Alya will continue her research at the Collège de France supported by the Paris Region award. In 2019, Alya was at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where she taught and was the holder of the Mellon Postdoctoral fellowship. In 2018-2019 she was at the University of Oxford, the recipient of the Barakat Trust award; prior to that she had joined the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Florence) research program ‘Connecting Art Histories in the Museum,’ and was also based for two years at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. Alya obtained her Ph.D. in Islamic Art History from the University of Edinburgh (2018), and her M.A. in History of Art & Archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (2011).