Mounia Chekhab Abudaya

Dr. Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya is Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Doha, Qatar. At MIA, she has led the Curatorial team during the revamping of the museum’s permanent galleries (2015-2022) and has both curated and co-curated 11 exhibitions including Hajj – The Journey through Art (2013) in collaboration with the British Museum; Building Our Collection: Ceramics of Al Andalus (2014); Qajar Women (2015); Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India (2017); Baghdad: Eye’s Delight (2022); and Splendours of the Atlas (2024).

Dr. Chekhab-Abudaya previously worked with the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre Museum, Paris and taught Islamic Art for undergraduate and graduate students at the Pantheon Sorbonne and the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). She completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Art History and Archaeology at the Pantheon Sorbonne University in Paris, specializing in the Western Mediterranean, manuscripts, and pilgrimage-related devotional materials in the Islamic world. With a great interest in languages, Dr. Chekhab-Abudaya holds a degree in Literal Arabic from INALCO.

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