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 “Art arabe moderne et la Métamorphose de la lettre arabe.” Un livre basé sur sa thèse “Art arabe moderne: Formation des Arabes Esthétique,” a été publié par l'Université de Floride Press, 2007. Elle est le commissaire de l'exposition itinérante “Dafatir: Contemporary Art irakien livre,” 2005-07; et “Moments de la 20th Century Art irakien,” au Centre d'art Montalvo, Californie, 2007-2008. Elle a édité le catalogue de l'exposition “Dafatir: Art contemporain Livre irakien (UNT Art Gallery, 2007)