Curriculum Vitae
Nada M. Shabout, Ph.D.
College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, 1155 Union Circle, # 305100, Denton TX 76203-5017
Shabout@unt.edu
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Education
Ph.D. in the Humanities, 1999, The University of Texas at Arlington. Criticism and Art History,
Cross-Cultural Studies, and Arab Studies, Dissertation: "Modern Arab Art and the
Metamorphosis of the Arabic Letter." Chair: Dr. Beth Wright
Master of Arts in the Humanities, 1991, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas. Areas of
concentration: Art Criticism and Art History, and Cross-Cultural Studies
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Arts, 1988, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Concentration in Painting
Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, England, 1985-1986, Project: London
Docklands, supervised by Ove Arup Consulting Engineers; Consultants: Richard Rogers &
Associates
Bachelor of Science in Architecture, 1984, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, Minor in
Urban Planning
New York Institute of Technology, New York, 1980-1982, Architecture Program
Teaching Appointments
2014-present, Professor of Art History, Department of Art Education and Art History, College of
Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2008-2014, Associate Professor of Art History, Department of Art Education and Art History,
College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Fall 2008, Visiting Associate Professor-Fulbright Senior Scholar, University of Jordan, Amman,
Jordan, College of Arts and Design
Spring 2008, Visiting Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art, Department of Architecture
2005-present, Affiliated Faculty, Women’s Studies Program, University of North Texas, Denton,
Texas
2002-2008, Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art Education and Art History,
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Spring 2001, Visiting Assistant Professor, Austin College, Sherman, Texas, Department of Art
1993-1995, Graduate Teaching Assistant and Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Art
and Art History, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Administrative Appointments
Director of Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative (CAMCSI), 2008present, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, http://art.unt.edu/camcsi.html
Area Coordinator of Art History Program, 2007, Department of Art Education & Art History,
University of North Texas.
Professional Experience
2012-2014, Consulting (Founding) Director for the Research Center on Arab Modernity at Mathaf,
Doha, Qatar
2009-2013, Advisor to Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
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Publications
Books
2017, Arab Art in the Twentieth Century: Primary Documents (working title), Co-edited with
Sarah Rogers and Anneka Lenssen, MoMA Publications. Under contract.
http://www.moma.org/learn/intnlprograms/research#course0.
2009, Salwa Mikdadi and Nada Shabout, eds, New Vision: Arab Art in the Twenty-First Century,
Transglobe Publishing Ltd. and Thames & Hudson.
2007, Nada Shabout, Modern Arab Art: Formation of an Arab Aesthetic. Gainesville: University
of Florida Press.
Authored and Edited Exhibition Catalogue
2012, Forever Now: Five Anecdotes from the Permanent Collection, Mathaf: Arab Museum of
Modern Art, Doha, Bloomsbury, Qatar Foundation Publishing
2010, Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art. Exhibition Catalogue, Co-editor and author, Mathaf: Arab
Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Milan: Skira Publisher
2010, Interventions: A Dialogue Between the Modern and the Contemporary, Mathaf: Arab
Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Milan: Skira Publisher
2009, Modernism and Iraq, co-edited with Zainab Bahrani, New York: Columbia University,
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery
2007, Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, Denton, TX: UNT Art Gallery
Websites
2011-present, Project Director, Modern Art Iraq Archive (MAIA): http://artiraq.org/maia/.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
2014, “Whose Space is it?” An International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) roundtable
on the production of public space. IJMES 46(1) – February 2014.
2013, Co-authored with Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers and Dina Ramadan, “Introduction, the
Longevity of Rupture: 1967 in Art and its Histories,” Special Section in ARTMargins 2:2,
MIT Press Journals (2013): 14-18.
2010, “The Arabic Connection in Articulating North African Modernity in Art,” in a special
issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 109:3, Summer 2010: 329-343 on "African Modernism,"
edited by Professor Salah Hassan.
2010, “Arab presence in Venice Biennale,” review essay in the Arab Studies Journal, Spring
2010, Vol XVIII/No.1: 356-360.
2009, ‘Art without History? Evaluating ‘Arab’ Art,’ Volume 42 Numbers 1 & 2, a special
double issue of the MESA Bulletin.
2006, "Historiographic Invisibilities: The Case of Contemporary Iraqi Art," The International
Journal of the Humanities, volume 3, Number 9 (2006): 53-64.
2006, "The 'Free' Art of Occupation: Images for a 'New' Iraq," Arab Studies Quarterly,
Volume 28, Number 3 and 4 (Summer and Fall 2006): 41-55.
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2006, "The Iraqi Museum of Modern Art: Ethical Implications," Collections: A Journal for
Museum and Archives Professionals from the Practical to the Philosophical, Vol. 2, no. 4, May,
AltaMira Press (2006): 285-298.
2006, "The Politics of Presentation. Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and
Albert Museum exhibition," The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, April 3 September 4. Coauthor Linda-Rose Hembreiker, in Arab Studies Journal (2006): 234-40.
Critical Reviews
2011, Review of “Baghdad Mem/Wars” by Sama al-Shaibi and Dena al-Adeeb in Light Work
Annual.
2007, "The Politics of Art History," a book review of Gannit Ankori, Palestinian Art, in Arab
Studies Quarterly. Volume 29, Number 2 (Spring 2007): 57-61.
2006, “Women and the Politics of Presentation,” a book review of Carol Malt, Women’s Voices in
Middle Eastern Museums: Case Studies. Jordan, in H-Gender-MidEast, http://www.hnet.org/~gend-mid/, 2006.
2004, Review of “Architects and the ‘Building World’ from Chambers to Ruskin: Constructing
Authority, by Brian Hanson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003,” for the
Newsletter of the Historians of British Art, Spring/Summer 2004.
Chapters in Books
Forthcoming, “Ghosts of Future Pasts: Iraqi Culture in a State of Suspension,” in Denise
Robinson, ed. Through the Roadblocks Reader, NeMe. Conference Proceedings.
Forthcoming, “Modernism and the visual arts in the Middle East and North Africa,” in
Allana C. Lindgren and Stephen Ross, eds. The Modernist World, the Routledge Worlds series.
2015, “Framing the Discipline of Contemporary Art of the Arab World through the Press,”
in Hamid Keshmirshekan, ed. Contemporary Art and Discourses from the Middle East,
London, I.B. Tauris.
2014, “Darat al-Funun: From a Mirage to a Home,” in Sarah Rogers, ed. Anthology on the
Shoman Private Collection, Shoman Foundation.
2012, “Bifurcations of Iraq's Visual Culture,” In Editors, Nadje al-Ali et al, eds. We are All
Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War. Syracuse University Press, 2012, 3-25.
2012, “Collecting Iraqi Art,” In Editors, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz,
Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World, Ashgate Publishing
Ltd, 2012.
2011, “In Lieu of the Sublime,” In Samar Faruqi et al, eds. Art in Iraq Today, Skira Publishers,
2011.
2010, “Trading Cultures: The Boundary Issues of Globalization,” In Jane Krom and Susan
Bakewell, editors. History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st
Century. Berg Publishers, 2010.
2010, “Usurping History: Iraqi Art, Monuments and Artists,” in the Homeworks IV: A Forum
on Cultural Practices, Beirut, Lebanon, 2010.
2010, “Images and Status: Visualizing Iraqi Women,” In: Faegheh Shirazi, ed., Muslim Women
in War and Crisis: from Reality to Representation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010.
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2009, “Dia al-Azzawi” in Dia al-Azzawi: Retrospective, Abu Dhabi: Meem for ADMAF, 2009: 127.
2006, “Preservation of Iraqi Modern Heritage in the Aftermath of the US Invasion of 2003,”
In Gail Levin and Elaine A. King, editors. An anthology on Ethics in the Art World. Allworth
Press, 2006.
2006, “The Forgotten Era: Modern and Contemporary Iraqi Art,” In Jocelyne Dakhlia, editor.
Créations Artistiques Contemporaines en Pays d'Islam: des Arts en Tension. Paris: Editions
Kimé, 2006.
Articles in Exhibition Catalogues
2015, “Odes of Line, Color and New Symbols: Modern Iraqi Art,” A Century of Iraqi Art,
Monday April 20, 2015, Bonham’s Auction Catalogue.
2014, “Utopian Reality: Dia Azzawi, 1964-1974,” in Dia Azzawi: Selected Works 1964-1974,
Meem Edition, in conjunction with the Frieze Masters Exhibition, London, October 15-19,
2014, 14-27.
2013, “Converging on Beauty,” Foreward for the Islamic Art Revival Series Second Exhibition of
Contemporary Islamic Art.
2012, “To Keep the Dream Alive,” Forward in Modern Iraqi Art: A Collection, Published by the
Publication Department of Meem with Art Advisory Associates Ltd., 2012.
2012, “Rethinking Contemporary Arab Art,” in Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab
World, Mori Art Museum, Japan, 2012.
2012, Forward, My Roulatte, Hala Al-Khalifa, May 9-23, 2012, Katara Art Center, Doha, Qatar.
2010, “The Challenge of Arab Art,” In Editors, Chris Dercon and Avinoam Shalem, Future of
Tradition - Tradition of Future, Prestel Publishers, Munich 2010.
2010, “The War of Difference,” in Beyond The War: Contemporary Iraqi Artists of the Diaspora
exhibition catalogue, LTMH Gallery, NYC, NY.
2010, “Equality through a Bottle,” introductory essay for the exhibition Fair Skies, Mahmoud alObaidi, Ajial Gallery, Beirut, Dubai, March 2010.
2010, “Eloquent Protests,” introductory essay for the exhibition Waraq, Hayv Kahraman, Frey
Norris Gallery, San Francisco, February 2010.
Essays in other Journals and online
2015, “Dia Azzawi: Ballads to Bilad al-Sawad,” in Contemporary Practices: Visual Arts from
the Middle East, Vol 16.
2013, Ibraaz Platform 06: “What role can the archive play in developing and sustaining a
localised and culturally specific art history,?”
http://www.ibraaz.org/platforms/6/responses/144/
2013, “The Cultural Costs of the 2003 US-Led Invasion of Iraq: A Conversation with Art
Historian Nada Shabout,” Unattributed co-authored with Isis Nusair, in Feminist Studies,
Volume 39, Number 1 (2013): 119-148.
2013, “Head to Head” an exchange about censorship with author and broadcaster Kenan Malik, in
Quarterly Journal Index on Censorship, 201.
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2013, “Cinquante ans d’art modern (tout) contre l’Occident” in Le dossier central de ce
numéro est intitulé “L'Egypte en son miroir, Arts et littératures, XIXe-XXIe siècle,” Qantara
82, Institut du Monde Arabe: 38-40.
2013, “A Makeover: Baghdad, the 2013 Arab Capital of Culture,” in Middle East Report 266,
published by The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP): 26-33.
2012, “Farewell Mohammed Ghani Hikmat,” in Jadaliyya.
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/2641/farewell-mohammad-ghani-hikmat
2012, “In Between, Fragmented and Disoriented: Art Making in Iraq,” in Middle East Report
263, published by The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).
2011, Proceedings from “The Modern World: Contemporary, Global and Islamic” in
International Conference Presenting “Islamic” Art in Contemporary Context, Amsterdam,
Holland, April 5, 2011.
2009, “Iraqi Art: Dafatir” in The State of the Arts in the Middle East, by the Middle East Institute
(MEI) Project, special edition of Viewpoints.
2009, “Are Images Global?” in the online journal Tate Papers in English, Autumn issue, and in
the Nafas Art Magazine in English, Arabic, and German.
http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/.
2008, "Time and Space in the Work of Shakir Hassan Al Said: A Journey towards the Onedimension," in Nafas Art Magazine. Universe in Universe: Contemporary art from Islamic
influenced countries and regions. May 2008. <http://universes-inuniverse.org/eng/nafas/articles/2008/shakir_hassan_al_said>.
2006, "Recovering Iraq’s Modern Heritage: Constructing and Digitally Documenting the
Collection of the former Saddam Center for the Arts," in The American Academic Research
Institute in Iraq Newsletter, Spring 2006.
2006, "Cultural Destruction and its Implications," in ArteEast. July 2006.
<http://www.arteeast.org/artenews/artenews-articles2006/political-art/artenews-shabout.html>.
2005, "Understanding Islamic Aesthetics," in The College Board, June 2005.
<www.collegeboard.com>. Translated to Italian in 2012.
2005, “The Forgotten Era: Modern Art in Iraq,” In CAA News, Volume 30, Number 1, January
2005.
2004, “Report on Losses to Iraq’s Modern Art Heritage,” In Middle East Women’s Studies
Review, Vol. xix, Nos. 1& 2 Spring/Summer 2004, 20.
1994, “Turning the Outside In…The Russian Unofficial Movement 1953-1988,”
The 1950's unofficial movement in Russian art in conjunction with the New Russian art:
Paintings From the Christian Keesee Collection. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Oklahoma
City, 1994.
Exhibitions Curated
2012, Academic Advisor for Forever Now: Five Anecdotes from the Permanent Collection,
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, November 17, 2012-June 1, 2013
2010, Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, senior curator, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art,
Doha, Qatar, December 30, 2010-May 30, 2011
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2010, Interventions: A Dialogue Between the Modern and the Contemporary, Al-Riwaq Art
Space, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, December 30, 2010-May 30, 2011
2009, Cultural Rhythms in Iraqi Art, The Arts Club, London, UK, sponsored by the British Iraqi
Friendship Society, September 29-October 13, 2009
2009, Modernism and Iraq, Columbia University, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 28
January - 21 March 2009
2007-2008, Moments from 20th Century Iraqi Art, The Montalvo Art Center, November 3January 5, 2007; January 20-April 2, 2008
2005-2008, Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, A traveling groundbreaking exhibition
presenting the work of 17 contemporary Iraqi artists, The University of North Texas Art
Gallery, October 17 - November 22, 2005
Travel schedule:
Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, Minnesota, January 6 - February 12, 2006
Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 17 - March 11, 2006
The Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas, El Paso, April
6-June 10, 2006
Daura Gallery, Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, VA, October 18 - December 11, 2006
the Center for Book Arts in New York City, NY, January 19 - March 31, 2007
Minneapolis Athenaeum, Minneapolis, MN, June 1 - July 31, 2007
NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL, August 28 - October 13, 2007
The Jaffe Center for Book Arts in Florida October-November, 2007
Denison University, Ohio Jan-March, 2008
Workshops and Seminars
2015, Symposium: The Way Things Can Go, Armory Show Focus: MENAM
Panel: On Representation, March 7, 2015.
2014, workshop: Arab Art in the Twentieth Century: Primary Documents, Amman, Jordan,
February 1-2, 2014
2013, Conference: Chair of Conference Committee On Likeness and Difference: Modern Art of
the Middle East and the Confines of Modernism, Kevorkian Center and NYUAD, NYU,
October 18-19, 2013
2013, Workshop: Law and the Arts in the Middle East Today, Watson Institute for International
Studies, Brown University Inaugural Workshop, May 3-4, 2013
2013, Roundtable: Modern Arab Art and its Publics, a roundtable with Nada Shabout and Amr
Shalakany, List Center, Brown University, April 9, 2013
2013, Symposium: Art and War in Iraq, Bell Gallery, Brown University, April 5, 2013
2013, Roundtable: Arab Art in the Twentieth Century: Primary Documents, Museum of Modern
Art, NYC, February 14, 2013
2013, Roundtable on Islamic Art, with Shahzad Bashir (Stanford), Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell
University), and Taraneh Hemami (Curator & Artist), organized by the Abbasi Program in
Islamic Studies, at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA, February 7, 2013.
2012, Symposium: Organizer and participant, Perceptions: Past + Present, The Research Center
on Arab Modernity at Mathaf, Doha, November 17, 2012
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2012, Conference: Chair of Conference Committee for The Longevity of Rupture: 1967 in Art and
its Histories, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, June 1-2, 2012
2012, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Workshops, University of Victoria, Canada, June
11-12, 2012
2011, C-MAP Seminar, MoMA’s International Program department, Museum of Modern Art,
NYC, February 22-23, 2011
2010, Conference: Chair of Conference Committee for Modern Arab Art: Objects, Histories, and
Methodologies, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar, December 16-17, 2010
2008, Saturday Seminar for Teachers: Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Art in the Middle East,
Paper: “Contemporary Arab Art,” Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU, New York City, April 5, 2008
2008, Adel Abidin interviewed by Nada Shabout, ARTSPACE, CAA Dallas, Annual Artist
Interviews, Dallas, Texas, February 22, 2008
2007, Organizer and moderator of the panel: Visualizing Iraqi Politics and Cultures in Iraq and
the Diaspora, in conjunction with Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, The New School
University and the Center for Book Arts, NYC, New York, Feb. 16, 2007
2006, The Orfali Gallery, Amman, Jordan. Organizer and chair of a panel: “On Destruction of
Modern Iraqi Heritage,” June 18, 2006.
2006, Co-director with Dr. Silvia Naef, University of Geneva, Workshop 4: From Local to
Global: Visual Arts in the Eastern Mediterranean between International Markets and
Local Expectations, The Seventh Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting,
Florence, Italy, March 22 – 26, 2006
2005, A one-day symposium: Pages from Iraq’s History, The University of North Texas, October
17, 2005Conference Papers and Public Lectures
Conference Papers and Public Lectures
Presentations in International Conferences
2015, College Art Association, NYC
Organized and co-Chair of AMCA Affiliate Roundtable: “What is Contemporary Islamic Art,
February 14, 2015.
2014, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Symposium: Postwar – Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965
Paper: “Enemy of the People: The Baghdad Group of Modern Art,” May 22-24, 2014
2013, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Panel: “Art and Media in the Arab Uprisings”
Paper: “Global Hot Spots for Re-imagining Art,” MERIP, November 1, 2013
2013, SOAS, University of London, London, UK
Conference: Regional vis-à-vis Global Discourses: Contemporary Art from the Middle East
Paper: “Framing a Discipline: Contemporary Art of the Arab World”
Chair: “The Problem of Teaching Contemporary Art from the Middle East,” July 5-6, 2013
2013, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, France
Symposium: Engaging Egypt in art, architecture and display, at home and abroad (19th-20th
century)
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Conference Organizer
Paper: “Contextualizing New Regional Narratives at Mathaf,” June 26-27, 2013
2013, University of North Texas
Peace Conference: The Middle East, A New Era?
Conference Organizing Committee Member
Paper: “A New Baghdad: Arab Capital Culture 2013”
Chair: “Collaborative Art in Countries of Conflict,” March 22-23, 2013
2012, Research Center on Arab Modernity, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Symposium: Perceptions: Past and Present, November 17, 2012
2012, Case Western Reserve University, Center for Policy Studies, Cleveland, Ohio
Panel organized by MERIP
Paper: “The Art and Culture of Revolt in the Middle East: Iraq,” September 28, 2012
2012, College Art Association, Los Angeles
Roundtable organized by AMCA: “Artists in Time of War and Revolution,” February 24, 2012
2011, The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) and the British Institute for the
Study of Iraq (BISI), Amman, Jordan
“Iraq Under the Sanctions: Economic, Political, Social and Cultural Effects,” September 23‐25,
2011
2011, College Art Association, NYC.
Roundtable organized by AMCA: “Modern Arab Art and Its Historical and Methodological
Relationships to the Post-Colonial Context”
Panel Chair: “Writing the Middle East,” February 9-12, 2011
2009, Middle East Studies Association, Boston
Chair: Iraqi Traumas since the 1990s: Haunting Traces and Shifting Boundaries, double session
Paper: “Displacements, Relocations and Memories in Recent Iraqi Art,” November 21-24, 2009
2008, International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, 3rd Annual Conference, SOAS,
University of London
Organizer and chair, "Mores and Wars: Cultural Patrimony in Iraq"
Paper: Modernity Denied: the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art, public monuments and migration
of artists," 16-17 July 2008.
2008, The Muslim World and the West: Emerging Avenues for Convergence, Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada
Organizer and chair, Visually Speaking: 'Us' and 'The Other'
Paper: Globalization and Contemporary Art in the Arab World, March 28-30, 2008
2008, College Art Association, Dallas
Organizer and chair, Advocacy Session: Cultural Patrimony in Iraq
Paper: Modernity Denied: the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art, public monuments and migration
of artists, February 20-23, 2008
2007, Middle East Studies Association, Montreal, Canada
Organizer and chair: Double Session: Art Without History? Evaluating ‘Arab’ Art
Paper: Is It Iraqi or Iraq’s Visual Culture?, in Roundtable: Contemporary Iraqis: Cultural
Voices of Resistance
Paper: Constructing an Art Historical Narrative: Modern and Contemporary Iraqi Art, in
Special Session: Writing the Oral History of Modern Iraq
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Organizer and presenter. Paper: Art under Occupation: Visions of Iraq, in Roundtable: Iraq’s
Identity before and after 2003 through the Arts, Literature and Media: Mixed Agenda and
Occurrences, November 17-20, 2007
2007, Southeastern College Art Conference, Charleston, West Virginia
Paper: The Challenge of Teaching “Islamic” Cultures of the Modern Age, October 17-20, 2007
2007, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Paper: Iraq’s Visual Culture: Displaced, Destroyed, or Transformed, Rebuilding Sustainable
Communities in Iraq, July 23-26, 2007.
2007, War and Our World Conference, London, UK
Paper: Visual Casualties and Cultural Displacement, July 19-21, 2007
2007, MIT5, Media in Transition 5: Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration in the Digital Age •
Boston
Paper: Bollywood: India’s “Global” Self-representation, April 27-29, 2007
2007, Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
Paper: From Arabism to Globalism: Defining the Field of Arab Art, March 27-29, 2007
2007, “Representations of 9/11” Conference at the University of Westminster
Paper: New Age Orientalism: The Middle East and Islam in US Museums after 9/11, March 1617, 2007
2007, College Art Association, New York
Paper: Constructing Victory: Iraqi Visual Culture after 2003, February14-17, 2007
2006, Middle East Studies Association, Boston
Organizer and chair: roundtable Exhibiting the “Orient” in the Age of Globalization
Paper: Visually Performing Culture: Iraqi Iconography of the 1950s, November 18-21, 2006
2006, The Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies at Amman, Jordan
Organizer and chair of the roundtable: Reconstruction and Reconfiguration of Baghdad’s
Public Space: Perspectives, Promises and Dangers
Organizer and chair of the panel: Gendered Creativity, Gendered Representations: Middle
Eastern Women in the Visual Arts, June 11-16, 2006.
Paper: The Ideology of Visualizing Space, June 11-16, 2006
2006, Mapping Arab Diasporas Conference, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Paper: Politics of Presentation: Islamic and Arab Art Exhibitions in America, “Building
Bridges” or Perpetuating Stereotype, April 27-29, 2006
2006, The Seventh Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence, Italy
Paper: Globalization or Isolation: the Effects of Sanctions on Contemporary Iraqi Art, March
22-26, 2006
2006, Empire, Resistance, and the War in Iraq, University of Texas, Austin
Paper: A “Liberated” Iraq: Simulation through Cultural Destruction, February 17-19, 2006
2006, College Art Association, Boston
Paper: Historic Amnesia or Ideology: the Absence of Arab Art from the Global Context,
February 22-25, 2006
2005, Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C.
Paper: Feminine Views: Contemporary Iraqi Women Artists, November 19-22, 2005
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2005, The International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies Inaugural Conference,
University of East London, United Kingdom
Paper: The “Free” Art of Occupation: Images for a “New” Iraq, September 1-2, 2005
2005, The Third International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Paper: Historiographic Invisibilities: The Case of Contemporary Iraqi Art, August 2-5, 2005
2005, Kuwait International Conference on Discourse Analysis, Kuwait University
Paper: Contemporary Visual Discourse in Iraq, March 26-28, 2005
2005, The Sixth Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Florence, Italy
Paper: Visual Discourse in Iraq: Identity, Change, and Visual Representations, March 16-20,
2005
2005, The 3rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Paper: Between East and West: Art History, Definitions and Contemporary Iraqi Art, January
13-16, 2005
2005, Royal Interfaith Institute, Amman, Jordan
Paper: Negotiations of Iraqi Identities: Iconography and Perception of Self in Visual
Representations, January 5-8, 2005
2004, Ege University: International Cultural Studies Symposium, Izmir, Turkey
Paper: Visual Reconstructions of Baghdad: Memories and Realities, May 5-7, 2004
2004, Sixth Annual Middle East Studies Regional Conference, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Paper: Visual Representations and Identity in Iraq, March 20, 2004
2004, College Art Association, Seattle, WA
CAA Special Advocacy Session Cultural Heritage in Time of War
Paper: Contemporary Iraqi Art: Education and Professional Community in Baghdad, Iraq,
February 18-21, 2004
2003, Middle East Studies Association, Anchorage, Alaska
Paper: Al-Azzawi: A Visual Renegotiation of an Iraqi Identity, November 7-9, 2003
2003, College Art Association, New York, New York
Paper: Islamic Art: Aesthetics, Ideology and Religion, February 19-22, 2003
1996, Inscription as Art in the World of Islam Conference
Hofstra Cultural Center, Hofstra University, New York
Paper: Text As Image in Arab Art, April 25-27, 1996
Invited Addresses and Public Lectures
2015, University of Texas in Austin, Austin, Texas
Lecture: “Resistance and Suspension in Modern Iraq¹s Visual Culture,” February 20, 2015.
2014, IUPUI University Library, Indianapolis
Symposium: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here
Keynote: “Beyond Daftir: Iraqi Visual Art Today,” November 17, 2014
2014, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Gallery talk: Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World
May 7, 2014
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2014, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Late Night at the DMA, Gallery talk: Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World
April 18, 2014
2014, Nanyange Technological University, Singapore
Lecture: “Towards a new definition: Contemporary Islamic Art at the Jameel Prize”
April 10, 2014
2014, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Lecture: “Modern Arab Art,” February 17, 2014
2013, Central Track, Dallas
Panel: “Art Practices and Politics in Middle East”
paper: “In lieu of Revolutions: New Hot Spots for Art,” November 14, 2013
2013, TWU, Denton: Women’s Studies Graduate Student Association (WSGSA)
Panel: Global Art, Activism, and Social Justice, October, 23, 2013
2012, University of Technology, Limassol, Cypress
Conference: Through the Roadblocks: Realities in Raw Motion Conference
Session Keynote: “Ghost of Future Pasts: Iraqi Art in a State of Suspension,” November 23-25,
2012
2012, Georgetown University, Doha, Qatar
The Doha Debates: “This House Believes Censorship Makes a Mockery of the Arts” May 21,
2012
2012, VCUQ, Doha, Qatar
Lecture: “Traditions and Controversies,” February 5, 2012
2011, Saadiat Mararah, 3rd annual Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Lecture: “Conversation with Monir Farmanfarmaian,” November 16, 2011
Panel moderator: “Art in Iraq Today,” November 17, 2011
2011, Messis Foundation, Oude Lutherse Kerk Amsterdam, Holland
Conference: International Conference Presenting “Islamic” Art in Contemporary Context
Keynote: “Contemporary, Global and Islamic”, April 5, 2011
2011, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
VIP exhibition tour of Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, March 2, 2011
2010, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
Al Riwaq Art Center, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Curatorial and media tours for Sajil: A Century of Modern Art and Interventions: A Dialogue
Between the Modern and the Contemporary, December 14 and 15, 2010
2010, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Curatorial Panel Discussion, December 15, 2010
2010, Art From Iraq and Iran, 2nd annual Abu Dhabi Art, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Paper: “Dia al-Azzawi: Five Decades of Making Art,” November 2010
2010, Hosted by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Marrakech, Morocco
Dialogue: “Modern Affinities, Contemporary Practices,” October 9, 2010
2010, Arab Art in a Changing World, Damascus, Syria
Panel Discussion: “The role of Art in our society,” October 3-4, 2010
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2010, Hosted by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Beirut, Lebanon
Dialogue: “‘Lost’ Canons of Modern Arab Art “
October 5th, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XJF107TAk0
2010, Iraqi Cultural Center, Washington, DC.
Lecture: “Iraqi Antiquities, Past, Present and Future,” August 23rd, 2010
2010, Constructions of History: Aesthetic Transcriptions in Arab Contemporary Arts, Berlin,
Germany
Paper: “Historically Considered: Conflicted Aesthetics in an Uncertain World,” April 30, 2010
2010, Homeworks V: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Beirut, Lebanon
Panel: “Where is Beirut, Ramallah, Cairo from Saadiat Island?”
Paper: “Identity Again: Redefinitions and Critical Reflections,” April 24, 2010
2010, St. Thomas University, St. Paul, Minneapolis
Lecture: “The Right to 'Be:' Arab Women Artists and Conflicts,” April 16, 2010
2010, Fine Arts Institute, NYU, New York City, NY
Symposium: Beyond the War, April, 2010
2009, The Arab-British Chamber of Commerce, London, UK
Lecture: “Creating Culture through Art,” October 1, 2009
2009, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Lecture: “Iraq’s Lost Modernity,” September 18, 2009
2009, Global Art Forum, Art Dubai, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai
Lecture: “Art & Criticism in the Middle East,” March 19, 2009
2009, Sharjah Biennal: The March Meeting, Sharjah, UAE
Lecture: “Representing AMCA,” March 18, 2009
2009 , Global Art Forum, Art Dubai, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Panel discussion: “Creating Spaces: Cultural Development and Art Practices,” March 16, 2009
2009, Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Panel discussion: joined Sarah Rogers and artists Walid Raad and Noah Simblist for a panel
discussion on the state of the field of contemporary Arab art, February 11, 2009
2009, Columbia University, New York City, NY.
Panel discussion: “Curating Modernism and Iraq,” with Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Collections
Curator, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar, and moderated by Zainab Bahrani, January 28,
2009.
2009, Tate Britain & Tate Modern, London, UK
Conference: Contemporary Art in the Middle East
Session: “Writing and Translation,” January 22-23 2009
2008, Darat al-Funun, Amman, Jordan
Lecture: “Contemporaneity in Art of the Arab World,” November 4, 2008
2008, Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX
University Night at the Crow
Lecture: “Contemporary Documentations”
A lecture in connection with Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social
Change exhibition, June 19, 2008
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2008, Keynote speaker at annual commemoration of Milad-un-Nabi, Montreal, Canada
Lecture: “The Beauty in the Word: Calligraphy and Epigraphy in Islamic Architecture,” April
29, 2008
2008, Homeworks IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices, Beirut, Lebanon
Lecture: “Usurping History: Iraqi Art, Monuments and Artists,” April 15, 2008
2008, The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Lecture: “Arab Aesthetics Reconsidered: Art Today,” March 17, 2008
2008, Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East the British Museum touring exhibition,
Dubai UAE
Panel discussion: “The Scholar, The Patron and The Artist,” February 7, 2008
2008, Stanford University, organized by Montalvo Arts Center, California
Iraq: Reframe Aurora Forum Talks
Lecture: “History without Art: The Impact of Loss, Exile and Renewal in Modern Iraqi Art”
Panel discussion with McGuire Gibson, moderated by Abbas Milani, January 28, 2008
2007, Denison University, Ohio, Women's Studies
Symposium: Gendered Borders
Panel discussion with Nadje al-Ali, April, 12, 2007
Lecture: “Gender, Creativity and War: Iraqi Women Artists,” April 10, 2007
2007, The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University Visual
Culture Series
Lecture: “Recovering Contemporary Iraqi Art,” March 8, 2007
2007, Arabic Studies Seminar, Columbia University
Lecture: “Iraqi Iconography: Formation, Continuity and Displacement,” February 15, 2007
2006, Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas
Lecture: “Saving Iraqi Culture, ”October 5, 2006
2006, The British Museum, London, UK
Symposium: Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East exhibition
Lecture: “Visualizing the Word,” May 16, 2006
2006, The University of Texas, El Paso
Lecture: “Iraqi Art” at the opening of Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, April 2006
2006, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Lecture: “Culture and War: Iraq's Destruction or Reconstruction?”, January 25, 2006
2006, Carleton College Art Gallery, at Boliou Hall Auditorium, Northfield, MN
Lecture: “Iraqi Art: Continuity through Contemporaneity,” at the opening of Dafatir:
Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, January 12, 2006
2005, The Wolfson Center for National Affairs and The Vera List Center for Art and Politics, the
New School University, New York City, NY
Lecture: “Iraq's Modern Heritage,” June 6, 2005
2005, University of North Texas Multicultural Center, Denton, TX
Lecture: “Islamic, Arabic, or Middle Eastern: Arts of the Region Then and Now,” April 20,
2005
2005, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Lecture: “Iraqi Art and Culture,” March 2, 2005
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2004, Educational Testing Service, Trenton, NJ
Lecture: “Islamic Aesthetics And Iraqi Art Today,” June 16, 2004
2003, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Shock and Awe: An Operation for Iraqi Liberation or American Occupation? An
interdisciplinary panel discussion organized by the Model International Organization, April 3,
2003
2001, Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Lecture: “Understanding Islam: a series of lectures and a panel discussion on Islam and Islamic
art,” October 2-3, 2001
2000, Austin College, Sherman, Texas
Lecture: “Islamic Art: Definitions and Misconceptions,” December 5, 2000
Editorial
2012-present, Editor in Chief of the Mathaf Encyclopedia of Modern Art and the Arab World,
http://www.encyclopedia.mathaf.org/en/Pages/default.aspx.
2011-2013, H-AMCA Board member. http://www.h-net.org/~amca/. H-AMCA is a moderated email list devoted to the study of modern and contemporary art from the Arab world, Iran, and
Turkey.
2011-present, Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board for the Routledge
Encyclopedia of Modernism (REM), Middle East Editor.
2010-2016, Member of the editorial committee of the Middle East Research and Information
Project (MERIP).
Organizations
2007-present, Founding president of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the
Arab world, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA).
Selected Grants and Awards
Nominated, UNT Research Leadership Award, University of North Texas, 2011
Research Creativity Enhancement, University of North Texas, 2010, $10,000
National Endowment for the Humanities-Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants: The Open
Modern Art Collection of Iraq: Web tools for documenting, sharing and enriching Iraqi artistic
expressions and experiences, 2009, $50,000.00
Fulbright Senior Scholar Program: Lecture/Research fellowship to Jordan Project: Arab Art
Now: A Study of the Contemporary Art Vision in Jordan, 2007-2008
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) Fellowship, 2007
Project: Between Local and Global: Continuity in Iraqi Art Since 1990, $10,000
Faculty Research Grants, University of North Texas, 2006-2007, $5,000
The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) Fellowship, 2006-2007
Project: Recovering Iraq's Modern Heritage: Constructing and Digitally Documenting the
Collection of the former Saddam Center for the Arts, $10,000.00
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas, 2005, $5,000
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The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. A grant for the publication of the catalogue of
Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art, 2005, $5,000
Humanities Texas, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Texas
Commission on the Arts, 2005
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 2004, $5,000
Faculty Research Grants, University of North Texas, 2003, $5,000
Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, University of North Texas, 2003, $5,000
Professional Services
2008, Delivered keynote address on behalf of Dr. Donny George, former Director of the State
Board of Antiquities and Heritage in Iraq and director general of the National Museum in
Baghdad, College Art Association, Dallas, February 21, 2008
2007, Consultant on planning the ReFraming Iraq Program (August 2007-April 2008) at the
Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga, CA, a multi-disciplinary arts organization and International
Residency Center.
2007, Consultant CoVA+D and the Arabic Heritage Society and facilitator the setting up of a
scholarship for Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies. Consultations included introductions, various
meetings, and plans for fundraising events.
2007, Consultant for the Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX. The museum, which
hosted and launched the Made in Palestine exhibition, is in the process of planning a similar
initiative to introduce Iraqi art.
2007, Consulted on preparing a brief guidance for US Customs agents in relation to the problem of
stolen modern Iraqi paintings. Special Coordinator for Iraqi Cultural Heritage, U. S.
Department of State, Cultural Heritage Center, 2007.
2007, Member of an assessment initiative by the Art History Newsletter to resolve the plagiarism
accusations brought up by the Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata against Ganit Ankori's book,
Palestinian Art.
2005, National expert witness in the U.S. v. McMillion case, Ft. Walton Beach, Eglin Air force
Base, Florida, April 2005
2003, The Aga Khan Foundation. Member of the Quality Assurance team for the activities of the
Village In Action of the Partnership Walk 2003
2002-2005 Educational Testing Service, Faculty consultant at the College Board’s AP Art History
Reading
2002-2004 Educational Testing Service. Test development work
Boards and Committees
2011-2013 Member of the selection panel for the Jameel Prize (international award for
contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition) 2013, Victoria and Albert Museum
(V&A).
2013-2016 Elected board member to The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII).
2012-2013 Member of the TAKREEM Selection Board for the Cultural Excellence Category and
the Exceptional International Contribution to Arab Society Category.
2011-present, Member of the Canvas Magazine Honorary Advisory Board.
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2010-present, Nominator for the Abraaj Capital Art Prize (ACAP).
2010-present, Member of the advisory board of the Young Mesopotamians: A Vision for an Iraqi
Art Revival.
2011, Served as a juror for an art exhibit/ competition of works highlighting the struggles and
achievements of the on-going Syrian Revolution. The show took place at the Arlington
Museum of Art on September 3rd.
2010, Jury member for I Care A Lot - a portable discussion on the Middle East. The project's aim
was to raise the discussion about current issues in the Middle East through an international art
exhibition in which jewelry is the chosen media.
2009, Member of the Heritage Committee, Cultural Section-Iraqi Embassy
2008-2011, Member of the Cultural Development Committee Board of Governors, Qatar
Foundation, and a consultant to the Museum of Modern Arab Art in Doha, Qatar.
2008-2011, Nominator for the Jameel Prize, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
2007, Special Coordinator for Iraqi Cultural Heritage, U. S. Department of State, Cultural Heritage
Center
2003, Member of Conscience International—US academic humanitarian team to Baghdad-Iraq.
Mission objective: to establish sustainable development partnerships between US institutions
and Iraqi institutions in health care, medical education, elementary and higher education, and
Iraq's cultural heritage. June 15-29, 2003
Submission and Tenure Reviews
2014, Tenure Dossier Reviewer for Dr. Angela Harutyunyan, Department of Fine Arts and Art
History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, considered for
promotion to Associate Professor without tenure.
2014, Updated review/letter for the Tenure Dossier of Dr. Pamela Karimi, considered for
promotion to Associate Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts Darmouth.
2014, Letter of support for the Tenure and Promotion of Malcolm L. Rigsby, Ph.D., J.D. Assistant
Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice & Coordinator of Criminal Justice, Dept. of
Sociology, Human Services and Criminal Justice, Henderson State University.
2014, Referee for the resubmitted version of Manuscript ID CUS-280-14-04 entitled 'Urban Land
Conflict as the Fight over Public Space: Socio-Physical Determinants of Resilience to Violence
in Baghdad’s Sectarian Civil War' for Urban Studies.
2013, Humanities advisor on the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, the Art of
Survival.
2013, Tenure Dossier Reviewer for Dr. Pamela Karimi, considered for promotion to Associate
Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts Darmouth.
2013, Article review: reviewed and reported on a submission titled “Inscriptions of King Abdullah
I Mosque” for Jordan Journal for the Arts, an Arabic Journal published at Yarmouk University,
Jordan.
2012, Manuscript review, Bashir Makhoul & Gordon Hon, Shataat: The origin of Palestinian Art
for Liverpool University Press.
2012, Book proposal submission review for an essay collection on Heritage Practices in the Gulf,
edited by Karen Exell and Trinidad Rico at UCL Qatar, for Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
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2012, Article review: reviewed and reported on a submission titled “Islamic Rooting of Art” for
Jordan Journal for the Arts, an Arabic Journal published at Yarmouk University, Jordan.
2012, Reviewed and evaluated an application submission for a research project titled
“Contemporary Art ‘in between’ ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ Traditions” for the Austrian Science
Fund (FWF).
2012, Tenure Dossier Reviewer for Dr. Sonja Mejchter-Atassi, Civilization Sequence Program,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, considered for promotion to
Associate Professor without tenure.
2011, Article review: reviewed and reported on a submission titled “Head Trips: An Intertextual
Analysis of Later Architecture and Sculpture under Saddam Hussein,” For the inaugural issue
of International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA).
2011, Tenure Dossier Reviewer for Sama Alshaibi, the School of Art at the University of Arizona,
considered for promotion to Associate Professor with tenure. I reviewed her dossier and wrote
a letter of recommendation for tenure and promotion on her behalf.
2011, Writing letter of support for fifth and sixth year renewal for Dr. Pamela Karimi, Assistant
Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts Darmouth.
2010-2012, Member of the Rhonda A. Saad Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Modern Arab Art
Committee.
2010, Article review: reviewed and reported on a submission titled, “Contemporary Book Art in
the Middle East: The Book as Document in Iraq,” for Art History, the Association of Art
History, UK, publication.
2010, Book proposal submission review, Bashir Makhoul & Gordon Hon, The origin of Palestinian
Art for Liverpool University Press.
2010, Middle East Studies Association, MESA 2010 Program Committee Member.
2009-2011, AMCA Reviews: member of the editorial board. As part of AMCA’s activities,
members submit books and exhibitions reviews that are peer-reviewed and then posted on
AMCA website.
2009, Evaluating a submission of an Arab artist to the MacArthur Fellows Program.
2008, External reviewer for tenure and promotion for Lahib Jaddo from Assistant to Associate
Professor at Texas Tech University.
2005, Served as a referee for the International Journal of the Humanities, December 2005
Research Interest
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Historiography of Arab art
Historiography of Iraqi art
Cultural destruction and preservation
Identity politics and art
Post-colonial and Feminist theory
Teaching Competencies
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Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Art of the Middle East
Islamic Art
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Architecture
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Global Visual Culture
Professional Memberships
2008, Member of The International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (IACIS)
2007-present, Founding President and member of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art
of the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA)
2005-present, Member of The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII)
2004-present, Member of the Association for the Middle East Women’s Studies
2004-present, Member of Historians of Islamic Art
2004-present, Member of the Institute of Near East and African Studies
1993-present, Member of the Middle East Studies Association
1997-present, Member of the College Art Association
1990-1999, Member of the International Council for Women in the Arts
Languages
Arabic: fluent speaking, reading and writing in classical, standard, and various spoken dialects
French: reading and writing knowledge
Russian: reading knowledge
Urdu & Hindi: working knowledge
Selected Publicity
2015, “Documenting a New Age of Art,” http://www.qf.org.qa/content/the-foundation/issue72/documenting-a-new-age-of-art, January 5, 2015.
2014, “Art in the Arab World,” Gulf Times, September 22, 2014.
2014, “In the News: Modern Arab Art Almanac,” Canvas 3, Art Dubai, Noember 6, 2014.
2014, Hamad Nasar, “Think. Review,” Think, Issue 8, 2014.
2013, Carol Vogel, “Art, From Conception to Birth in Qatar,” The New York Times, October 7,
2013.
2013, “Professor Q&A provides perspective on massacre in Egypt,” NT Daily, August 16, 2013.
2013, “Pharaonin der Herzen,” Kultur, August 8, 2013.
2013, “Documenting what has been lost: UTA grad works to archive missing art,” April 21, 2013,
MidCitiesonline.com.
2013, Charles Pocock, “Book review,” WINTER 2012/2013, Harper’s BAZAAR ART; 117.
2013, Art Dubai: Exhibiting galleries announced, http://art-agenda.com/shows/art-dubaiexhibiting-galleries-announced/
2013, Quoted in Carol Vogel, “Art, From Conception to Birth in Qatar, Damien Hirst’s Anatomical
Sculptures Have Their Debut,” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/arts/design/damien-hirstsanatomical-sculptures-have-theirdebut.html?_r=0&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1389489461rIjFbtR03btQhhhEr77BFw
2013, “2nd Annual Juried International Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art is presented by
The Islamic Art Revival Series,” Sep 27, 2013, Exhibition by Islamic Arts Magazine,
http://islamicartsmagazine.com/magazine/view/contemporary_islamic_art/
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2013, Reed College Calendar, http://academic.reed.edu/anthro/calendar.html.
2013, Quoted in Von Werner Bloch, “Pharaonin der Herzen,” in Donnerstag, 8. August 2013 / NR.
21 772.
2013, Art and War in Iraq Symposium | Wafaa Bilal | The Ashes Series, Brown University,
http://brown.edu/campus-life/arts/bell-gallery/events/2013/04/05/art-and-war-iraq-symposium.
2013, Roundtable on Islamic Art, Stanford University,
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/islamic_studies/cgi-bin/web/2012/12/roundtable-on-islamic-art/
2012, “A ferocious defender of all that relates to the Iraqi art memory, the professor of modern and
contemporary Arab art, Dr. Nada Shabout” a guest of “Hadith Akhar (Another Talk)” on
Alsumaria TV, aired on Dec 7, 2012.
2012, Caydee Ensey, Staff writer. “UNT Professor Searches for lost Iraqi modern art.” North Texas
Daily, March 14, 2012.
2012, “Traditions and Controversies” Lecture at VCUQ on Monday. Qatar Tribune, February 5,
2012.
2012, http://policy.case.edu/past-programming/the-art-and-culture-of-revolt-in-the-middle-east/,
The Art and Culture of Revolt in the Middle East, Center for Policy Studies, Case Western
Reserve University.
2012, http://www.thedohadebates.com/debates/item/?d=123&s=8&mode=speakers, The Doha
Debates May 21 2012, Qatar Foundation.
2011, “Treasure Hunt: Alumna Nada Shabout traces modern Iraqi art,” UTArlington Magazine,
Summer 2011.
2011, Canvas Daily, 18-19 November 2011, Issue 4, Abu Dhabi Art Edition.
2010, Jay Merrick, Rapping and Wrapping in Modern Arab Art, The Independent, December 29,
2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/rapping-and-wrapping-inmodern-arab-art-2165256.html
2010, Jerome Weeks, Art&Seek on Think TV: Nada Shabout at UNT, May 7, 2010.
http://www.kera.org/artandseek/content/2010/05/07/artseek-on-think-tv-nada-shabout-at-unt/
2009, A Lecture by Shabout at Shoman about the Visual Arts in the Arab World. 24/10/2008,
http://www.alarabalyawm.net/pages.php?news_id=122921
2009, Patrick Lee, “For Saddam’s surgeon, a new (Haven) life,” Yale Daily News, September 23,
2008, http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25311
2008, Haupt & Binde, “AMCA - Interview with Nada Shabout,” Universes in Universe, Nafas Art
Magazine, September 2008, http://universes-in-universe.org/eng/nafas/articles/2008/amca
2008, Louay Ismail, Producer Arabic Service, BBC Xtra, London, radio interview “Iraqi Modern
Art,” August 08, 2008
2008, Hala Saleh, BBC Arabic Planning, radio interview on BBC, June 30, 2008.
2008, Bob Smyth, “The Indiana Jones of Iraqi Art,” The Sunday Post, Glasgow, Scotland
July 20, 2008
2008, AP reporter Jamie Stengle, “Texan helps document modern art looted from Iraq,” June 28,
2008. The story was picked up by national and international news outlets, including the
Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062801381.html, Boston Globe, and BBC.
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2008, Laura Wilkinson, "There is more to be mourned than Iraq's ancient treasures,
Nada Shabout's talk at Home Works laments the tragic loss of the occupied country's modern
art patrimony as well," Special to The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon, April 18, 2008.
2008, Carole Corm, "Art and the Academic," Canvas, Art and Culture from the Middle East and
Arab World, Volume 4, issue 2, March/April 2008.
2008, Mohammed Ali, "Speakers bemoan loss of Iraqi art, Both stress deep history of art, recent
plunder of museums," The Stanford Daily, January 29, 2008.
http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2008/1/29/speakersBemoanLossOfIraqiArt.
2007, Zeina Zaatari, "History of Modern Art in Iraq" on Voices of the Middle East and North
Africa, December 12th, KPFA-Berkeley. http://kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=23751.
2007, Narcel X, "Looking for Generations' Worth of Imagination: Shabout," Montréal Mirror, Nov
21 2007, http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/111507/news3.html.
2007, Carole Corm, Interview that highlights my work with AMCA and Arab art. November issue,
Elle Middle East.
2007, Michael Mooney, "Professor Strives to Save Iraq's Heritage," front page in Time Out, Gulf
Times Feature. October 9, 2007.
http://www.gulf-times.com/mritems/streams/2007/10/9/2_177511_1_255.pdf.
2007, Ellen Rossetti, "Lost Treasures: Art Historian Documents Missing Iraqi Art," in The North
Texan, Fall 2007, vol. 57 no. 3.
2007, Michael Mooney, "UNT Professor's Mission: Save Iraq's Modern Heritage," in the Dallas
Morning News, September 23, 2007.
2007, Maya Ghandour, Article highlighting my work and my role in forming Association for
Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA), in L'Orient Le
Jour, The Lebanese daily newspaper of French expression, August 10, 2007.
http://www.lorientlejour.com/page.aspx?page=main-page.
2007, Anayat Durrani, "Iraq's Forgotten Modern Art," January 31, 2007, and "Introducing Iraq's
Contemporary Artists," on www.fineartregistry.com. The two stories are based on extended
interviews with me.
2006, UNT 2006 issue of Resource magazine. The story covers the topic of my research and
project of documenting the looted collection of the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art:
http://www.unt.edu/untresearch/lost.htm.
2006, KUHF 88.7FM, Houston Public Radio, interview by Dean Dalton for the Front Row about
my work on Oct. 5, 2006, organized through contact with The Rothko Chapel. The interview
focused on the situation of cultural preservation in Iraq today, and specifically about my project
of constructing a virtual archive.
2006, CBS - Channel 11, “A UNT Art Professor Searches For Stolen Iraqi Art.” March 7, 2006.
Newspaper: CBS - Channel 11 (DFW) Writer: Eileen Gonzales. Article date: 03/08/2006.
http://video.aol.com/video-detail/a-unt-art-professor-searches-for-stolen-iraqi-art/294890856.
2005, Terry Lee Goodrich, Front page, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, “UNT educator works to
find lost Iraqi art,” Nov. 17, 2005.
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