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After three years of hard work, the Arab Centre for the Study of Art has now launched at New York University Abu Dhabi.
The centre is devoted to the visual art of Western Asia and North Africa. Housed on the Saadiyat campus, it will support research in the form of publications, post-doctorate fellowships and symposiums, as well as house and digitise archives in Middle East and North Africa region art history. There is also set to be a programme of conferences, symposiums, workshops and an artist’s residency.
The centre is led by Salwa Mikdadi, a professor of art history at NYUAD and an authority in the field of Arab modern and contemporary art. She is joined by May Al Dabbagh, assistant professor of social research and public policy, and Shamoon Zamir, a literature professor and the head of the photography archive Akkasah.