Nada Shabout

Nada M. Shabout (born 8 January 1962, Glasgow, Scotland) is an American art historian specializing in modern Iraqi art. She has been a professor of art history at the University of North Texas since 2002. She is the president and co-founding board member of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (AMCA)[1][2]

Biography

Early life and education

Nada Shabout was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the oldest of three children born to a Palestinian mother and Iraqi father. The family returned to Iraq when she was 6 years old and she graduated from Baghdad High School for Girls.[3]

Shabout was trained in architecture at the New York Institute of Technology, the University of Texas at Arlington and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, England. She has also earned BFA fine arts, MA and PhD in the Humanities with a concentration in art history and criticism from the University of Texas at Arlington, 1999.[4] She wrote her dissertation on "Modern Arab Art and the Metamorphosis of the Arabic Letter."[5] A book based on her dissertation "Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics," was published by the University of Florida Press, 2007.

Career

She has been an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas since 2002, teaching Arab visual culture and Islamic art. She has been working on the documentation of modern Iraqi heritage, particularly the collection previously held at the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art since her visit to Baghdad in June 2003.[3] She has been organizing panels and presenting around the world on the state of Iraq's modern heritage following 2003, the relationship of identity and visual representations in modern and contemporary Iraqi art, and exhibitions of Middle Eastern arts in the West since 911.

She is a co-founder and president of the Association of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA).[2] AMCA was founded in 2007 as a private, non-profit, international organization as an affiliate organization of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA).[1] AMCA mission statement claims, aims to advance the study of contemporary Middle Eastern art studies, through the creation of a network of interested scholars and organizations, facilitating communication and cooperation by sponsoring conferences, holding meetings, and exchanging information via a newsletter and a website.[1]

She is the curator of the traveling exhibition "Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art," 2005-07; and "Moments from 20th Century Iraqi Art," at the Montalvo Art Center, California, 2007-2008. She has edited the exhibition catalogue "Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art (UNT Art Gallery, 2007).

Published works

Books

Catalogues

Articles

She is the author several articles that examine legal and ethical responsibilities of the US in Iraq after 2003, including:

Awards

Among her honors is The American Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TAARII) fellowship 2006 and 2007; and Fulbright Senior Scholar Program,[6] 2007 Lecture/Research fellowship to Jordan Project, "Arab Art Now: A Study of the Contemporary Art Vision in Jordan."

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Haupt, Gerhard; Binder, Pat (September 2008). "AMCA - Interview with Nada Shabout". Nafas Art Magazine. Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa), Germany, Elke aus dem Moore, in cooperation with Universes in Universe - Worlds of Art. Retrieved September 2014.
  2. 1 2 "AMCA - Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey". Amcainternational.org. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  3. 1 2 Mooney, Michael J. (2007-09-22). "UNT professor's mission: Save Iraq's modern heritage". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  4. ↑ Pewitt-Jones, Kim (Spring–Summer 2006). "Mavericks Personified: Nada Shabout". UT Arlington Magazine. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "AKPIA at MIT, Spring 2008 Lecturer Biographies". Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2008. Retrieved September 4, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Fulbright 2007-2008 Grantees". Fulbright.state.gov. Retrieved 10 January 2015.

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