Dr. Eiman Elgibreen is Assistant Professor at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU) in Riyadh and a member of the Shura Council Committee of Culture, Media, Tourism and Antiquities. She helped curate several notable exhibitions, including the Saudi Pavilion at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and the first edition of Noor Riyadh Festival, a citywide festival of light and art. Throughout her career, Dr. Elgibreen has collaborated with many established organizations as a researcher and consultant on projects related to Saudi art, such as The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Art Dubai Modern, MiSK Art Institute, Ithra World Center, Darat Safeya Binzagr Gallery, and Dar Al-funoon Al-Saudia. In 2020, she received a grant as part of the Getty-CAA International Program, which funds art historians, museum curators, and artists who teach art history. Dr. Elgibreen holds a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Sussex, UK.Dr.
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Dr. Nada Shabout
Dr. Nada Shabout is a Professor of Art History and Coordinator of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative (CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas in the United States. Dr. Shabout is also the founding president of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA). She is the author of Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics (2015). She co-edited New Vision: Arab Art in the 21st Century (2009) and Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (2018). Dr. Shabout curated the exhibition “Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, Interventions: A Dialogue between the Modern and the Contemporary” in 2010 , “Modernism and Iraq” in 2009, and the traveling exhibition, “Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art”, from 2005-2009.
