Nesma Shubber Author

Nesma Shubber is a writer and art historian born in London. She gained a first class BA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art before spending two years in New York studying at The New School. She also holds a masters degree in Literature and Arts from the University of Oxford.  Suad Al-Attar (b. 1940, Baghdad) is a contemporary Iraqi painter whose work is rooted in the visual traditions of the Middle East. She received her undergraduate education at Baghdad University and studied at Wimbledon School of Art and London Central School of Art and Design during the mid-1970s. Her works are held in the British Museum, London, and the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Dohan, Qatar, though many of them once held in the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad have been lost. Venetia Porter is curator of Islamic and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art at the British Museum. She holds a BA in Arabic and Persian and an MPhil in Islamic Art from the University of Oxford and has curated two major exhibitions at the British Museum, Word into Art (2006) and Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam (2012).