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Curricular topics under review include minor fields of study and museum training. Oleg Grabar, chairman of the department, said yesterday, calling the current museum training "half-baked, for the time being...
...Oleg Grabar, professor of Fine Arts and chairman of the Department, attended a conference in Cairo on the preservation and restoration of Islamic monuments of the old city of Cairo...
...Grabar said last month he attended the conference partly because he is an authority on Islamic architecture, and partly to discuss a proposal by the Aga Khan to restore some Egyptian monuments. During the conference, he met with worldwide authorities and with Gehan el-Sadat, Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat's wife, who chairs a committee on the protection of Islamic monuments in Egypt...
...Grabar was unavailable for comment after the conference...
...current departmental offices in the Fogg are a mixed blessing, Grabar adds. While the museum allows concentrators greater access to private collections, the department's quarters must close at 5:30 p.m. when the museum does...