Hala Auji is a writer and art historian. She is associate professor and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Her work focuses on the visual dimensions of modernity in the eastern Mediterranean, including print culture, book history, museum practices, and portraiture. She’s the author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut (Brill, 2016).
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