Zeido Zeido
Born in 1987, Dr. phil., Bachelor’s in Architecture from P.U.S.A: The Private University of Science & Arts in Aleppo, Syria. Master of Science in Architecture from Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi in Istanbul, Turkey. Doctorate of Philosophy (Dr. phil.) from Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus, Germany. Affiliated with the UNESCO Secretariat’s Expert Roster for Emergency Safeguarding of the Syrian Cultural Heritage. Selected professional experience: From October 2019 until November 2022 Architect at Grukon Consulting in Berlin. From April 2016 to September 2019 researcher at Brandenburg University; Visiting and Guest Lecturer in Brandenburg University, Helwan University and the German University in Cairo-Berlin Campus. Before 2016 experience as a practicing architect in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Syria.
Research interests: Heritage in conflict zones, urban heritage of the MENA region.
Current Project:
Completed Doctoral Research project:
Reclaiming the Architectural Heritage of Aleppo after the Syrian War
Publications:
Zeido, Zeido (forthcoming 2023). Aleppo A ‘Mental Map’ of Aleppo: The City’s Urban Evolution and its Architectural Styles. In: Zeido, Zeido & Çağaptay, Suna (Eds.): Mapping Cities in the MENA Region: Visualising the Untold Narratives of Heritage. Birkhäuser, Basel.
Zeido, Zeido (2023): Attempting to document and rehabilitate Aleppo between 1994 and 2011: the ramifications of pre-conflict built heritage mismanagement and the effects of the scarcity of documentation on options available for post-conflict conservation. Built Heritage 7, 3 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-023-00084-2.
Zeido, Zeido / Ibold, Nura (2019): The Division of Aleppo City: Heritage and Urban Space. In: Frank, Sybille / Ristic, Marjana (Eds.): Urban Heritage in Divided Cities: Contested Pasts, London 2019.
Selected taught lectures:
- The post-war reconstruction experience of Warsaw
- Beirut’s division and post-war experience
- The destruction of Aleppo’s heritage before and during the conflict: The Different Urban Spaces and the conflict division
- Heritage and Identity: Heritage Sites as a tool for International conflicts in the Middle East
Awards:
- Research scholarship from the Gerda Henkel Foundation
Selected Conferences & Events:
- Conference «11th Fields of Conflict Conference» (University of Edinburgh, Online Conference, 7.–8. Mai 2022)
- Symposium «Heritage and Conflict in the MENA Region: Cases from Aleppo, Beirut, Tunis, Hebron, and Acre» – Co-organizer and Speaker (Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany, 28–29 October 2019)
- Conference «Destruction/ (Re-)Construction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Cultural Heritage in Conflict» – Chair (American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, 30 September – 2 October 2019)
- Conference «Catastrophe and Challenge: Cultural Heritage in post-conflict Recovery» (Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany, 25 March 2017)
- Conference «Post-war Cities» (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany, 28–29 January 2017)
- Experts Meeting «Second Meeting of the Young Experts Forum on the Safeguarding of Syrian Cultural Heritage» (UNESCO, Berlin, Germany, 22–25 September 2016)
- Workshop «Syrian Urban Research Network» (TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 12–13 September 2016)
- Experts Meeting «Guidelines on Safeguarding Cultural Significance of Urban Structures Damaged by Armed Conflict» – Member of the organization committee and Speaker (Brandenburg University of Technology, Cottbus, Germany, 30 June – 2 July 2016)
- Workshop «Scenarios for Post-War Reconstruction in Aleppo» (University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 16–19 June 2016)
- International Experts Meeting «Emergency Safeguarding of Syria’s Cultural Heritage» (UNESCO, Berlin, Germany, 3–4 June 2016)
- Experts Meeting «Young Experts Forum on the Safeguarding of Syrian Cultural Heritage» (UNESCO, Berlin, Germany, 1–2 June 2016)
Selected interviews:
- Televised interview “BTU für Aleppo” (RBB: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, 20 April 2016)
- Televised interview “Gutted facades, pulverized houses, devastated buildings. One of the oldest cities in the world, Aleppo, is dying” (AFP: Agence France-Presse, 26 May 2017) This interview was translated and reused by many other media agencies including The Local, IMAZ Press, and Arab News.
- Newspaper interview “Stadtplanung: Wie die Uni in Cottbus helfen will, Aleppo wieder aufzubauen“ (Berliner Zeitung, 6. April 2017)
- Newspaper interview “Alep, une lente reconstruction” (lA-Croix, 13 December 2017)