Rose IssaRose Issa is a curator, writer and producer who has championed visual art and film from the Middle East for more than thirty years. Since the 1980s, she has showcased upcoming and established artists and produced exhibitions worldwide, including at te Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Leighton House Museum, London; Tate Britain, London; and European Parliament, Brussels, among others. Issa lends work to and advises on collections for institutions and organisations around the world, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; The Smithsonian, Washington; The British Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institution (Sackler/Freer Gallery and National Museum of African Arts); and World Bank, Washington DC. Her recent publications include Signs of Our Times: from Calligraphy to Calligraffiti, Iranian Contemporary Art, Arab Photography Now, Iranian Photography Now, Parastou Forouhar: Art, Life and Death in Iran; and Maliheh Afnan: Traces, Faces, Places.

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