Meet the Author
Chloe-Kate Abel
Chloe-Kate Abel is finishing her postgraduate degree in Curating Cultures at SOAS University, where she focuses on contemporary Middle Eastern and African art. She holds certifications in Advanced Arabic through the US Department of Education’s CASA fellowship in Jordan, Arts Leadership and Culture Management from the University of Connecticut, and a BA in Arabic and Persian from the University of St. Andrews. Her interest in the arts and languages was first sparked during high school as a NSLI-Y scholar in Morocco. Chloe-Kate has gained valuable experience working with various arts and education institutions, including an internship at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts and a fellowship at Al Akhawayn University. Having lived in Morocco on-and-off since 2014, she is particularly interested in contemporary North African art and themes of urban space, architecture, and identity. Chloe-Kate is currently pursuing a dissertation on Moroccan Modernist Mohamed Melehi and the Cultural Moussem of Asilah 1978.
