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Aleppo

Atta's Master's thesis is concerned with the example of (ancient, Islamic) Aleppo as a urban planning curative against modernity. As it happens, ATTA is concluded, following ZERO, with a brief three-page passage which seems to derive from the master's thesis itself. But given the work's semi-fictional status, it's difficult to pronounce the epilogue as a genuine passage from Atta's thesis without further research. Did Kobek sit in a reading room at Hamburg while researching? Are people allowed to access the work at the library itself? Is the following worldcat entry legitimate?

https://www.worldcat.org/title/khareg-bab-en-nasr-ein-gefahrdeter-altstadtteil-in-aleppo-stadtteilentwicklung-in-einer-islamisch-orientalischen-stadt/oclc/935623976

This author has taken some personal interest in the academic theses of controversial figures. He has downloaded and printed out a personal copy of Theodore Kaczynski's doctoral thesis, "Boundary Functions", which is still available for purchase at the below link. He has also sat in the reading room of a local college and read the dissertation of his estranged lesbian aunt, on the cultural care for Hmong people in Minnesota hospital systems. So yes, I also would like to read Atta's work. Is there a German equivalent of proquest where the thing has been catalogued? Or is it formally suppressed and kept locked up tight in a back room? These are my questions.

https://dissexpress.proquest.com/dxweb/results.html?QryTxt=&By=&Title=&pubnum=6717790