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New Middle East Galleries
Penn Museum
Slipper coffin, Nippur, Iraq.

New Middle East Galleries

  • Penn Museum, Philadelphia
The 4,500-year-old crown jewels of a queen. One of the world's...
Tomb of Menna in the Theban Necropolis

Tomb of Menna in the Theban Necropolis

  • American Research Center in Egypt, al-Qarna, Egypt, online
Some 3,000 years ago, on the west bank of the Nile in al-Qarna, Egypt...
Virtual Tours: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 3-D Models and Museum Tour
3-D view of the coffin of Ankh-Khonsu, Thebes, Egypt, Dynasty 22 (945–712 BCE); painted wood. 

Virtual Tours: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East 3-D Models and Museum Tour

  • Online, by the Harvard Museum of Ancient Near East
Collections at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (formerly the...
Virtual Tour: Zawiya-Sabil Faraj ibn Barquq, Cairo
3-D doll-house view of Zawiya-Sabil Faraj ibn Barquq.

Virtual Tour: Zawiya-Sabil Faraj ibn Barquq, Cairo

  • Online, by the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)
Constructed between the years 1408 and 1409 CE, the Zawiya and Sabil...

Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Walled Unwalled and Other Monologues

  • through June 11, 2023
  • MoMA, New York
Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Walled Unwalled and Other Monologues invites visitors to consider the “ear-witness” as a form of legal testimony, and how the physical act of listening can...
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Amarna: City of the Sun God

  • January 26, 2022 through June 18, 2023
  • Glyptoteket
This exhibition couple Akhenaten and Queen Nefertitti as a new place of residence, which although housing palaces for the royal family, residential areas, workshops and burial grounds, quickly...
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Figural Representation in Islamic Art

  • through August 6, 2023
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum
Figural Representation in Islamic Art showcases different types of representation in Islamic art works by contemporary artists Shirin Neshat and Burhan Doğançay. Mosque decoration is often without...
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Sharjah Air Station: The First Landing 90 Years Ago

  • through September 3, 2023
  • Al Mahatta Museum
Sharjah Air Station: The First Landing 90 Years Ago commemorates the UAE’s 90 years of prosperity and development in the aviation field and the first aircraft landing in Sharjah. It also...
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Artists making books: poetry to politics

  • through September 17, 2023
  • The British Museum
Artists making books: poetry to politics highlights the relationship between artists and poets, and the influences that inform their work, from family to politics and everything in between. This...
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Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond

  • through September 24, 2023
  • LACMA, Los Angeles
Women Defining Women in Contemporary Art of the Middle East and Beyond presents 75 works by women artists who were born, or live in, what can broadly be termed Islamic societies. Each through her...
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Shifting the Silence

  • September 5, 2022
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Shifting the Silence features dynamic works by 32 women artists who use the radical language of abstraction to enhance our understanding of the world we inhabit. Named after artist l Adnan's...
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A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt

  • Brooklyn Museum of Art
The ancient Egyptians believed that to make rebirth possible for a deceased woman, she briefly had to turn into a man. Guided by new research inspired in part by feminist scholarship, the...
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African Art Gallery

  • Art Institute of Chicago
The recently reinstalled African ArtGallery uses a revised color and lighting scheme to create a more intimate experience that showcases the artistic quality and cultural resonances of individual...
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