Salwa Mikdadi is Director and Principal Investigator of al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art and Professor of Practice in Art History at NYU Abu Dhabi. She is the author and editor of several books and essays on Arab and Palestinian art, and curated the first Palestinian Pavilion for the 2009 Venice Biennial. Mikdadi helped establish several art and culture programs in the US and UAE and was a lecturer at Sorbonne-Paris Abu Dhabi. She is a founding member of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey.




