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<DIV align=justify><FONT face="Palatino Linotype"><STRONG>BOOK
ANNOUNCEMENT<BR></STRONG><BR><STRONG>Bayt al-'Aqqad. The History and Restoration
of a House in Old Damascus.<BR></STRONG><BR>Edit. by Peder Mortensen.
Proceedings of the Danish Institute in Damascus, IV, 2005 (440pp, 318 figs. and
4 plates) ISBN 87-7934-215-9 <BR><BR>The book can be ordered online from Aarhus
University Press, Denmark (</FONT><A href="https://www.unipress.dk"><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">https://www.unipress.dk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Palatino Linotype">).<BR><BR>The book is divided into two sections:
a report on the restoration of Bayt al-'Aqqad, which now serves as the domicile
of the Danish Institute in Damascus (five chapters), and a series of studies on
the history of the house and its surroundings (ten chapters), followed by an
extensive bibliography.<BR><BR>Stefan Weber<BR>Orient-Institut Beirut /
Lebanon<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>