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Research Documentation
on the Cultural Heritage
of Yemen --
The Tarim Project |
Project Direction:
Pamela Jerome, R.A., Columbia University
James Conlon, Columbia University
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The city of Tarim, in the Hadhramawt region of Yemen, is known for its
elaborate early twentieth-century mud-brick palaces. Since 2001, a team headed by Pamela
Jerome, a preservation expert at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture and
Preservation Planning, has conducted a series of annual campaigns documenting these unique
buildings, with major funding from the American Institute for Yemeni Studies' annual program grants
from the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, as well as a grant
from the U.S. Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation.
Research documentation produced by the project includes an online interactive pedagogical
website created and maintained by James Conlon, Director of Columbia University's Media Center
for Art History, Archaeology, and Historic Preservation. That website, Community and the Built Environment: The Tarm
Documentation Project is one of the array of international research resources supported
or facilitated by the work of American Overseas Research Centers and their collaborative
projects.
The LALORC project is part of the on-line Digital Library for International Research
Please direct any feedback regarding this website to: lalorc@aiys.org.
