Meet the Author
Amina Diab
Amina Diab is an art historian and curator specialising in modern and contemporary art of the Middle East. She holds an MPhil from the University of Oxford and a PhD in History of Art from the University of York, completed in partnership with Tate Modern. She has held curatorial roles across major exhibitions, including the Islamic Arts Biennale (2023; 2025) and the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale (2024). Most recently, she co-curated A Necessary Fiction: Maps, Art and the Models of Our World at Abbazia di San Gregorio in Venice, coinciding with the 61st Biennale di Venezia, and worked on Bedayat: Beginnings of the Saudi Art Movement at the National Museum of Saudi Arabia. She is developing a book on the transnational history of modern art in Egypt.
