Eşanu - Art, awakening, and modernity in the Middle East the Arab nude

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Hala Auji is Assistant Professor of art history at the American University of Beirut (AUB), where she teaches courses on the art, architecture, and material culture of the Islamic world. Her book Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and The American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Leiden: Brill, 2016) explores how Ottoman Beiruts nineteenth-century print culture, in its varied visual conventions, uses, and meanings, was a vehicle through which publishers, authors, and editors negotiated their views on social change, cultural heritage, political identity, and state modernization reforms. In the 201617 academic year, she was a faculty fellow at AUBs Mellon Foundationfunded Center for Arts and Humanities, where she developed curricula and research related to her current project, The Art of the Arabic Periodical in the 19th Century, which examines the materiality of scientific-literary journals published in Ottoman Beirut and Cairo, and considers questions of visual literacy in the production of modern scientific knowledge. She holds a PhD in art history from the State University of New York at Binghamton, an MA in art criticism and theory from Art Center College of Design (Pasadena), and a BFA in graphic design from AUB.

Saleem Al-Bahloly is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. He received a PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 20142016 he was a fellow in the EUME research program at the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. While a fellow, he worked with the artist Dia al-Azzawi and the curator Catherine David to develop parts of his dissertation into a major retrospective of Azzawi at the Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha. He is currently working on a book about art practice in Baghdad during the 1960s.

Hala Bizri is a Lebanese researcher, librarian, and publisher, born in Beirut in 1967. Her PhD studied how Lebanese publishers and writers shaped a vibrant intellectual milieu that would be eventually be destroyed by the war. Continuing the work of previous scholars, she has created a bibliography of the Lebanese book (1920 1960). She has also headed a major effort, yet unfinished, to create a bibliography of the Arabic book. She is currently writing a book on the geography of culture in prewar Beirut. Since 2005 she has worked for the Lebanese National Library, where she led the effort to inventory and catalogue the librarys collections. In 2013 she founded, with a few friends, a small publishing house, Snoubar Bayrout, aiming to provide innovative texts in both Arabic and Lebanese dialect, and to do so with beautiful production values, giving her books not one but two chances at braving wars.

Nadia Bou Ali is Assistant Professor at the Civilization Studies Program and the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the American University of Beirut. She is currently completing a book entitled In the Hall of Mirrors on the intellectual history of liberalism in Arabic thought (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press), and co-editing the volume Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic). Her research and teaching interests revolve around critical social theory, intellectual history of political economy, and psychoanalysis.

Elka M. Correa-Calleja teaches art history and history at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Instituto Cultural Helnico, both in Mexico City. Her research focuses on the art of the Arab world during the interwar period, and cross-cultural relationships between Egypt and Europe, as well as artistic exchanges between the Middle East and Latin America. In Mexico she pursued studies in architecture at the Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana (UAM) and in history at the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico (UNAM). After a trip to Egypt she developed an interest in the Arab world and pursued a masters degree in Asian and African Studies, specializing in the Middle East, at El Colegio de Mxico (COLMEX). Awarded a scholarship from the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologa (CONACYT), she did her doctoral research in France under the direction of Ghislaine Alleaume and Mercedes Volait at the Institut de Recherches et dEtudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM) and the Aix-Marseille Universit. In 2014 she defended her thesis, Nationalism and Modernism Through the Work of Mahmud Mukhtar , which received very honorable mention with unanimous congratulations from the jury.