Inspiring innovation from tradition

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  • "Translation and Transliteration. Plant names in Hunayn ibn Ishaq’s and Istifan ibn Basil’s Arabic version of Dioscorides, De materia medica", Al-Qantara 30 (2009), pp. 558-580.
  • "Fluid Picture-Making across Borders, Genres, Media. Botanical Illustration from Byzantium to Baghdad, Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries", in Jaynie Anderson (ed.), Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration, and Convergence. The Proceedings of the 32nd International Congress in the History of Art (Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art, CIHA), The University of Melbourne, 13-18 January 2008. Carlton (Australia): the Miegunyah Press, 2009, pp. 159-163.
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  • Ancient Botany from Byzantium to the West - Catalogue of the Exhibition held at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC, May 1 - July 10, 2000, Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 2000, 46 p., black/white illustrations.
  • "Transcultural Tradition of Pharmacological Data Through History: The Problems of the Illustration. A Case Study", in Christina E. Gotschalk-Batschkus & Christian Rätsch (eds.), Ethnotherapies. Therapeutic Concepts in Transcultural Comparison (Curare, Special Issue). Berlin: Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1998, pp. 175-178.
  • "Theoretical Concepts and Problems of Greek Pharmacology in Greek Arabic Medicine: Reception and Re-elaboration", Forum 6, 1 (1996), pp. 21-39.

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