Nada Shabout

Nada Shabout is Associate Professor of Art History and the Director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Studies Institute (CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas. She is the founding President of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA), and is a member of the Cultural Development Board at the Qatar Foundation. 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. She wrote her dissertation on “Arte árabe moderna y la metamorfosis de la Carta Árabe.” Un libro basado en su tesis “Arte árabe moderna: Formación de Estética árabes,” fue publicado por la Universidad de Florida Press, 2007. Ella es el comisario de la exposición itinerante “Dafatir: Contemporary Art Book iraquí,” 2005-07; y “A pocos minutos de la 20th Century Art iraquí,” en el Centro de Arte Montalvo, California, 2007-2008. Ella ha editado el catálogo de la exposición “Dafatir: Contemporary Art iraquí libro (Galería de Arte UNT, 2007)