This individual is a guest contributor. MEI is not able to assist with contact requests.
Carol Malt, PhD is a museum director, historian, and explorer. She has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar, the Executive Director of three art museums, and curator of numerous exhibitions. She has lived in the Middle East, participated with Sir Edmund Hillary in a camel trek across northern India, is an Explorers Club member, and a private pilot. Dr. Malt is author of Women’s Voices in Middle East Museums: Case Studies in Jordan (2004), the novel The Free Woman (2003), and numerous journal articles.
I have wanted to tell the world about Samia Zaru for a long time. It is difficult to write about her, not because her works are inscrutable — for they are straightforward — but because the sheer power of the woman herself gets in the way. She embodies contained passion and tough love … she combines a restless mind, a contrarian’s tongue, a designer’s eye, and a compassionate soul.
Introduction to The State of the Arts in the Middle East Vol II
This special edition of MEI Viewpoints is the second volume in a continuing series which explores the State of the Arts in the Middle East. The essays comprising this volume examine the art and influence of the distinguished Palestinian artist and educator Samia Zaru, representations of female communities in Algiers in three of renowned filmmaker Nadir Moknèche’s cinematic works, and the cultural production and societal roles of female Turkish Cypriot artists.
