Maryam Eskandari is an Architect and a graduate of the Aga Khan Program in Islamic Architecture at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a focus on modern and contemporary “Islamic” Architecture in the West, and in particular gendered aspects of devotional spaces. Maryam has received many prestigious awards including the prestigious Aga Khan Award in Islamic Architecture for her work on Muslim women’s spaces in contemporary American mosques. In 2007 the American Institute of Architects awarded her with the Associate of the year award for commendable architecture and design. Ms. Eskandari is a contributing writer for PBS Frontline, New York’s Elan Magazine, and Alt Muslimah Magazine based in Washington DC. She has lectured on issues of Muslim Women in America. Her current touring exhibition: “Sacred Space? (Re) Constructing the Place of Gender in the Space of Religion” executes and documents over 100 mosques focusing primarily on issues of gender and space.