British Museum – Dr. Fahmida Suleman

British Museum - Dr. Fahmida SulemanFahmida is a curator responsible for the ethnographic collections from the Middle East and Central Asia. These include costumes, textiles, jewellery and other artefacts of daily life.

She obtained her Master’s and Doctorate in Islamic Art and Archaeology from Oxford University. Her Master’s thesis focussed on the nineteenth-century architecture in the Stone Town of Zanzibar, Tanzania, and her Doctoral thesis looked at the iconography of lustre ceramics from eleventh-century Fatimid Egypt.

Fahmida is currently working on the British Museum’s collection of twentieth-century Omani silver jewellery. She is also researching the costumes and textiles from the Middle East and Central Asia for a future publication.

Current British Museum projects

Adornment and Identity: Silver Jewellery from Oman. Exhibition. 21 January – 11 September 2011

via British Museum – Fahmida Suleman

Biography at IIS: http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_person.asp?ID=168&type=auth

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