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Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Rituals of war, The Infinite Image: Art - Time and, Women of Babylon, The Graven Image: R, Modernism and Iraq Similar People Edhem Eldem, Zeynep Çelik, Marc Van de Mieroop, Mario Liverani, Nada Shabout | ||
Sovereign power death and monuments zainab bahrani
Zainab Bahrani (Arabic: زينب البحرانى ) (born 1962) is an Iraqi professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University.
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- Sovereign power death and monuments zainab bahrani
- Researchin with Alexander Zainab Bahrani UIC
- Career
- Books
- References
Researchin' with Alexander: Zainab Bahrani @ UIC
Career
A native of Baghdad, Iraq, she was educated in Europe and the United States. She received her Master of Arts and doctoral degrees (Ph.D. 1989) in art history and archeology from New York University's Institute of Fine Arts.
Prior to her appointment at Columbia University, Bahrani taught at the University of Vienna in Austria, State University of New York at Stony Brook, and was a curator in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Near Eastern Antiquities Department from 1989 to 1992.
She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford for 2010–11.
On May 25, 2004, Bahrani was appointed to work with the Coalition Provisional Authority as Senior Consultant for Culture. She has stated that her objective will be to continue the reconstruction of the Iraq National Museum and the Iraq National Library and to identify new opportunities for training and study abroad.
Books
Dr. Bahrani has written four books: