Ismail NashefIsmail Nashef is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar. He has held academic positions in different universities in the Arab World and beyond. In addition to his academic career, he is a literary nd art critic as well as a curator. He has initiated and participated in different cultural and academic projects in academia and elsewhere. His research focus is on materiality, language and ideology. He explores these topics as they are expressed in literature and visual arts. His current research is on visual arts and literature in the colonial contexts, with special attention to the Arab Islamic societies, generally, and Palestinian society, particulary. His latest publications include: Ruins: Expressing al Nakba (Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2019); Arabic: A story of a colonial mask (Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, 2018); June's Childhood: Dar al Fata al Arabi and the genres of tragedy (Tamer Institute for Community Education, 2016); Images of the Palestinian Death (Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies, 2015); On Palestinian Abstraction: Zohdy Qadry and the Geometrical Melody of Late Modernism (Raya, 2014). Read More Read Less