Hesham Al-Awadi Dr Hesham Al-Awadi is Professor in History at the American University Kuwait. He was lecturer in Modern Middle East Politics at Exeter University and Visiting Professor at George Washington University. He completed his BA, MA, MPhil and PhD in the field of Middle Eastern History, in various British universities including the University of Cambridge. The recipient of the Innovative Lecturer Award, his taught courses include History of Kuwait and History of the Gulf. Kuwait: A societal and historical overview The lecture will offer a general overview of Kuwait’s history and society. It will discuss the founding of Kuwait, relations with the Ottomans and the British, politics and government…

Tim Stanley Dr Tim Stanley is senior curator for the Middle Eastern collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He has been responsible for a number of projects, including the Jameel Gallery, which is the Museum’s main display for the Islamic Middle East. He has curated travelling exhibitions, including Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Masterpieces of World Ceramics. He developed the Jameel Prize and has curated or co- curated four editions of the Prize and the accompanying exhibition of work by the finalists. He has published on a range of topics connected to Islamic art and Ottoman culture, from book collecting…

Bahareh Azizi Dr Bahareh Azizi is a consultant at the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) and the creator/instructor of the DAI’s Experience Science programmes for children. Prior to joining KFAS, she was the head of Basic Science Research at the Dasman Diabetes Institute. She is the recipient of a five year Cruddas/Tseu Senior Fellowship at Oxford University and the author/co-author of numerous articles published in various professional journals. Azizi worked for almost a decade in the US as a research scientist. Beauty Lies Within: The art of protein structures Marc Chagall once said “Great art picks up where nature ends”. As most of would agree, nature is…

Véronique Schiltz Ms Véronique Schiltz is a member of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. She trained as a Hellenist, and following the steps of Herodotus on the northern shores of the Black Sea, she became a specialist of Scythian art. She has been the curator of many exhibitions (“From the Lands of the Scythians, New York and “Or des Scythes” Paris). Her publications include: La redécouverte de l’art des Scythes (1992), and Les Scythes et les nomades des steppes (1994) Gallimard. Ancient Nomadic Jewellery In ancient times, between the Danube and the Yellow River, from the edge of the Siberian taiga to Central Asia, on the immense expanses…

A lecture titled  “Study of modern Arabic Dialects and its origins in the Arab heritage” presented by Dr. Othman Alseni  

A lecture titled “Dadan The Capital of the kingdom of Deidan & Luhian” presented by Dr. Sulaiman Bin Abdulrahman Althieeb. Professor of History at King Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and an active member of many scientific societies and committees including the Scientific Council and the Historical Society of Saudi Arabia and the Graduate Studies Committee in the Department of History at King Saud University. He has published many books in his field of specialization.      

Samir Mahmoud Dr Samir Mahmoud is an Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He is also director of the Mediterranean Cultural Academy (MCA), an unusual study and travel academy promoting academic and cultural travel in the Arab World. Between 2013 – 2016 he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Khalili Centre for Research in Art & Material Culture, University of Oxford (2012-2013) and Agha Khan Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT (2012). The Architecture of Limits & the Limits of Architecture: Modern architecture in search of a soul This lecture is about…

Yarmouk Cultural Centre “Poems from the Arabian Peninsula before Islam through Archaeological evidences” presented by Dr. Yousef Muhamed Abdullah. Dr. Yousef Abdullah is a Professor of Archaeology and the Dean of post-graduate studies and scientific research at Sana’a University. He holds a Doctorate degree from the University of Tubingen, Germany. Archaeological discoveries indicate that there were literary images found on stones, rocks and wood before Islam.  

A lecture about ” Remembrance, 60 years of establishing Kuwait National Museum & 35 years of the establishment of Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah” presented by Dr. Hasan Ashkanani. The lecture talks about 60 years of establishing The Kuwait National Museum and 35 years of establishing Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah in a different perspectives. And it focuses on their important role in various fields.  

Glenn D. Lowry Dr Glenn D. Lowry, the sixth director of The Museum of Modern Art, directs an active programme of exhibitions, acquisitions, and publications. A strong advocate for contemporary art, he has lectured and written extensively in support of contemporary art, artists and the role of museums in society, among other topics. He is a member of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s board of trustees and serves on the advisory council of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. In Between Places: Making contemporary art in the Middle East In Between Places takes as its point of departure the fact that contemporary art in the Middle…