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Saleem Al-Bahloly is a PhD candidate in
the Department of Anthropology at the
University of California, Berkeley. He is
writing a dissertation about modern art
in Baghdad during the 1950s and 1960s.

Clare Davies is a doctoral candidate and
Erwin Panofsky Fellow at the Institute of
Fine Arts, New York University. Her disserta-
tion explores the production of figurative art
in Egypt between 1908 and 1945. She is the
coauthor with Jeffrey Weiss of a catalogue
raisonné of Robert Morris’s object sculpture
(1960–65) (forthcoming, Yale University
Press).

Tammer El-Sheikh is a PhD candidate in
the Department of Art History and Com-
munications Studies at McGill University.
He has published art criticism in the peri-
odicals Parachute, Canadian Art, ETC,
and C Magazine. His dissertation is titled
“Strategies of Refusal: Art and Cultural
Politics in the Work of Edward Said and
Hassan Khan.”

Kasper Kovitz is an Austrian artist living
and working in Los Angeles and Beirut. He
describes his work as landscape painting in
an expanded sense. Taking up a variety of
media and dimensions, his work reconsiders
the iconic imagery of borders, violence, and
identity. Since 1999 he has been assembling
these “fragments” into a projected superin-
stallation of over 600 pieces. Currently he is
an assistant professor of studio arts at the
American University of Beirut.

Andres Kurg is acting head of the Institute
of Art History, Estonian Academy of Arts, in
Tallinn. His research looks at architecture
and design in the Soviet Union during the
late 1960s and 1970s, especially in relation to
technological transformations and changes
in everyday life, as well as their intersection
with alternative art practices.

Mari Laanemets is a senior researcher at
the Estonian Academy of Arts (Institute of
Art History). Her current research looks at
the convergence of art, architecture, and
design in the Soviet Union during the late
1960s and 1970s. Her recent projects include
the exhibition and publication of Environ-
ment, Projects, Concepts: Architects of the
Tallinn School 1972–1985 at the Estonian
Museum of Architecture (2008).

Anneka Lenssen is an assistant professor
in the Visual Cultures program of the
Department of the Arts at the American
University in Cairo. Her current research
focuses on Arab art theory and practice,
particularly in Syria and the Eastern Medi-
terranean during the 1940s, 1950s, and
1960s.

Dina Ramadan is an assistant professor of
Arabic at Bard College. Her research focuses
on the development of the category of
modern art and the relationship between
education and artistic production in early-
20th-century Egypt.

Sarah A. Rogers is a founding board mem-
ber and previous president-elect of the
Association for Modern and Contemporary
Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey
(AMCA). She is currently editing a collection
of essays on the Khalid Shoman Private
Collection in Amman, Jordan.

Walid Sadek is an artist and writer living
in Beirut. His early work investigated the vio-
lent legacies of the Lebanese Civil War. His
recent written work endeavors to formulate
a theory for a postwar society disinclined to
resume normative living. He is an associate
professor in the Department of Architecture
and Design at the American University of
Beirut.

Nada Shabout is an associate professor of
art history and the director of the Contempo-
rary Arab and Muslim Studies Institute
(CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas.

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