Fahmida 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
I paid a visit to the Omani Exibition http://omanholiday.co.uk/blog/index.php/2011/08/03/omans-adornment-and-identity/ it seem to have had a lot of special care and attention
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