Amy Landau

Amy Landau is Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Islamic and South & Southeast Asian Art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland. At the Walters she has organized a series of exhibitions dedicated to the Middle East and North Africa. Their number includes: Gérôme and His Circle: Travel, Art, and Business in the Middle East (2015–16); Pearls on a String: Artist, Patron and Poet at the Great Islamic Courts (2015-16); Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Egypt’s Ben Ezra Synagogue (2013); and Art of the Writing Instrument from Paris to Persia (2011). Landau is currently overseeing the re-installation of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Walters, opening October 2017, which will be followed by new galleries for Islamic art. Her publications focus on cultural interchange between Iran and Europe and the Armenian community of New Julfa. Landau received her doctorate from the University of Oxford, Islamic Art and Archaeology, in 2009.

 

Stefan Weber

Professor Dr Stefan Weber is the Director of the Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon in Berlin, Germany. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of Material Culture at Aga Khan University in London. Between 1996 and 2007 he was a Research Fellow at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Damascus and at the Orient-Institute Beirut (OIB).
He currently organises the re-conceptualisation of the Museum of Islamic Art, which explores new grounds in communicating the legacy of art, architecture and archaeology of the Islamic Middle East. His program on refugees as guides for refugees (Multaka) won several awards. He curated larger exhibitions and directed research, an award winning restoration and documentation projects on cities and the cultural heritage of the Middle East. Dr Weber published widely on Middle Eastern heritages.

 

Sussan Babaie

Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Her research and teaching focuses on the early modern period in Persianate West and Central Asia. She also writes and lectures on contemporary arts of Iran and the Middle East. She is the author of the award-winning Isfahan and Its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi‘ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran (2008), and the co-author of Persian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1989), Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran (2004), Shirin Neshat (2013), and Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis (2014). Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (United States), the Fulbright (for Egypt and Syria) and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.

 

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