Join us as we interview Salwa Mikdadi associate professor in the practice of art history at NYU AD on our afikra Conversations series on February 11.
Date: Thursday, February 11
Time: 12PM NYC | 5PM London | 7PM Beirut
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (afikra)
Salwa Mikdadi specializes in the history of modern and contemporary art of the Arab world. Prior to joining the NYUAD, Mikdadi worked at Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority where she established the professional development program for museum professionals including a customized executive program (2012 - 2014) and was a lecturer at the Paris-Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi in the postgraduate program - History of Art and Museum Studies (2010-May 2014). Mikdadi was the Executive Director of the Arts and Culture Program at the Emirates Foundation in Abu Dhabi (2009-2012). She wrote the reference guide on the history of the twentieth-century art of West Asia, North Africa and Egypt for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline web pages and is the editor and co-editors of several publications on the subject. Mikdadi curated several exhibitions including the first Palestinian collateral exhibition at the Venice Biennial in 2009.