Zainab Bahrani Explained

Zainab Bahrani
Birth Date:29 August 1962
Birth Place:Baghdad, Iraq
Education:New York University Institute of Fine Arts (MA, PhD)
Occupation:professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology
Employer:Columbia University
Awards:James Henry Breasted Prize (2009)[1]

Zainab Bahrani (Arabic: زينب البحراني; born 29 August 1962) is an Iraqi Assyriologist and professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology at Columbia University.[2]

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.[3]

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.

She was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.[4]

Books

Dr. Bahrani has written four books:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: James Henry Breasted Prize Recipients | AHA .
  2. Web site: Zainab Bahrani . 9 May 2022 . Columbia University Department of Art History & Archaeology.
  3. Web site: Oxford Slade Professors, 1870–present. University of Oxford. 2012. 27 January 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150213123228/http://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/fileadmin/hoa/documents/pdf/Oxford_Slade_Professors.pdf. 13 February 2015.
  4. Web site: Zainab Bahrani. 2021-01-08. American Academy of Arts & Sciences. en.