Wassan Al-Khudhairi

Wassan Al-Khudhairi is a curator who specializes in modern and contemporary art from the Arab world.

with distinction in Islamic Art and Architecture from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.

[7][8] As a curator, her research interests are in modern art from the Arab world, with a particular emphasis on Iraq.

Al-Khudhairi's work often considers questions such as the use or recreation of history, memory, traumatic events such as war and civil uprising.

and a leader within the Arab world's emerging contemporary art scene,[citation needed][9] Al-Khudhairi was a Keynote speaker at the 2012 Communicating the Museum conference.