Dr. Irini Biezeveld
Irini Biezeveld is a curator of archaeology at the Drents Museum, Assen. She wrote her PhD at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany within the joint research project on abandoned mudbrick settlements in Central Oman, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2020-2022).
Key publications: 1. Biezeveld, I. (2023) Re(dis)covering the recent: Surveying settlements and society in central Oman from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 34.1, pp. 107-121. 2. Biezeveld, I. (2024) (ed.) Dacia – Rijk van goud en zilver. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers. 3. Döpper, S., Biezeveld, I., Maiorano, M.P., Kluge, J. (2023) The 2018 Archaeological Survey at Tawi Said, Sultanate of Oman. Arabia Orientalis 8. Oxford: Archaeopress. 4. Biezeveld, I., Düring, B.S. (2020) Pre-oil globalization in a rural community: The late Islamic village of Sahlāt in the Ṣuḥār region. Journal of Islamic Archaeology 7.2, pp. 199-219.
Books by Irini Biezeveld
Mudbrick Settlements of the Oman Peninsula
Inhabited – Abandoned – Re(dis)covered
Edited by Stephanie Döpper, Birgit Mershen, Josephine Kanditt, Irini Biezeveld & Thomas Schmidt-Lux | Forthcoming
Caught between the poles of remembering and forgetting, glorification and neglect, the abandoned mudbrick settlements (ḥārāt) of Oman are a vital object of conflicting processes of interpretation and negotiation. Adopting a diachronic perspective, the multi-disciplinary…
