Empathy & Connection: Curating the Emirates Festival of Literature, Ahlam Bolooki
Ahlam Bolooki is the Director of the Emirates Festival of Literature – the Middle East’s largest celebration of the written and spoken...
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Curating Pakistan: Interdisciplinary Exhibition Making, Noor Ahmed
Noor Ahmed is an art curator, artist, and writer. After pursuing History of Art and Fine Art at the Pratt Institute, New York, USA, she...
British Mosques & Decolonising Islamic Arcitecture, Shahed Saleem
Shahed Saleem is a practicing architect, and a design studio leader at the University of Westminster School of Architecture. His...
Communicating Collections: Speculative Museology & Islamic Visual Culture, Nur Sobers-Khan
Nur Sobers-Khan is a curator and cultural heritage professional with expertise in Islamic art and manuscript collections from the Middle...
Colonial Legacies & Orientalist Mindsets: Islamic Art in UK Museums & Galleries, Shaheen Kasmani
This early photo of the British Museum, taken by Roger Fenton in 1857 Colonial legacies and orientalist mindsets continue to impact how...
Everyday Muslim: Beyond Representation, Sadiya Ahmed
Sadiya Ahmed founded Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative in response to the lack of representation of the Muslim narrative in...
Co-Curation, Addressing Privilege and Future Legacies, Imrana Mahmood
Imrana Mahmood is a British Creative Producer, with a passion for educational grassroots activities to enable self-empowerment through...
Islam, belief, and secularism in the British Art Museum, Hassan Vawda at Tate and Goldmsiths
Hassan Vawda is a researcher and practitioner in culture change, participatory practice and fragmented histories in arts, culture and...
Poetry to Politics, Rachel Dedman Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at V&A
Rachel Dedman is a curator, writer, and art historian based in London, where she is Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle...
Ecology, Colonialism & Climate Injustice, Jessica El Mal
Jessica El Mal is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator addressing global structures of power through critical research,...
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