This panel introduces AMCA: The Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (www.amcainternational.org) and brings together scholars and activists to trace the relationship of art and social justice within the history of modern art of the Arab World. It will draw on a series of case studies from modern and contemporary Arab art to consider the successes and failures of art in addressing social issues and the possible role of academia within acts of civic resistance.
Sarah Rogers, AMCA: Association for Modern & Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey
Sarah Rogers is an independent scholar and founding member and President-Elect of AMCA. She is currently co-editing Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents, to be published in Fall 2017 by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She received her PhD in 2008 from the History, Theory and Criticism section of the Dept. of Architecture at MIT.
Dina Ramadan, AMCA: Association for Modern & Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey
Dina Ramadan is assistant Professor of Arabic at Bard College. She received her PhD from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University and is currently working on a manuscript entitled An Education of Taste: Art, Aesthetics, and Subject Formation in Colonial Egypt.
Amira Pierce, New York University
Amira Pierce received her MFA in fiction from Virginia Commonwealth University and teaches freshman composition at New York University. She is a writing mentor to US military veterans for Military Experience and the Arts and to high school girls in New York City public schools with Girls Write Now. Her creative writing has appeared in publications, including the Colorado Review, the Cream City Review, The Tusk, and the Asian American Literary Review. She is currently at work on a novel.
Hanan Toukan, Brown University
Hanan Toukan is the Adrienne Minassian Visiting Professorship in Honor of Marilyn Jenkins-Madina in the Depts. of Visual Arts and Middle East Studies at Brown University. She received her PhD in 2012 from SOAS University of London, where her dissertation, Intimate Encounters: Globally, Cultural Diplomacy, and Art in Post-War Lebanon, won the 2012 MESA Award for Best PhD in the Social Sciences.
Haytham Bahoora, AMCA/University of Toronto
Haytham Bahoora is assistant professor of Arabic Literature at the University of Toronto. He earned his MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University and has published articles on Arab art and literature in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, among others. His book, Aesthetics of Arab Modernity: Literature and Urbanism in Colonial Iraq, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Session tags: DIWAN, Activism
Grosse Pointe Room