- Zainab Bahrani
Zainab Bahrani ( _ar. زينب بحرانى ) (born 1962) is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and
Archaeology atColumbia University .Career
A native of
Baghdad ,Iraq , she was educated in Europe and the United States. She received her Master of Arts and doctoral degrees (Ph.D. 1989) in art history and archeology fromNew York University 'sInstitute of Fine Arts .Prior to her appointment at Columbia University, Dr. Bahrani taught at the
University of Vienna inAustria ,State University of New York at Stony Brook , and was a curator in theMetropolitan Museum of Art 's Near Eastern Antiquities Department from 1989 to 1992.On
May 25 ,2004 , Dr. Bahrani was appointed to work with theCoalition Provisional Authority as Senior Consultant for Culture. She has stated that her objective will be to continue the reconstruction of the Iraq National Museum and the Iraq National Library and to identify new opportunities for training and study abroad.Books
Dr. Bahrani has written several books, including:
* "Myth And Politics In Ancient Near Eastern Historiography", Cornell University Press (2004), ISBN 0-8014-4333-4, written in co-operation withMario Liverani .
* "The Graven
* "Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia", Routledge (2001), ISBN 0-415-21830-6External links
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/html/dept_faculty_bahrani.html Faculty webpage]
*worldcat id|lccn-n00-109533
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