Three interesting lectures will be presented in the Met:
- Dr. Janet Johnson
Professor of Egyptology, University of Chicago
Cleopatra as CEO:
Bureaucracy and Scandal in the
Hostile Takeover of a First Century B.C. Multinational
- Dr. Judith Weingarten
British School of Archaeology
Zenobia, Empress of the East:
The Incredible Rise and Fall of the City of Palmyra
- Dr. Michael Barry
Department of Islamic Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Queen Shirin of Armenia:
How an Ancient Near Eastern Queen Became the Symbolic
Lady Beloved of Medieval Islamic Mysticism, Poetry and Art
