Nada M. Shabout

Previous Scheduled Teaching

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

• Shabout, N., Mikdadi, S. (2019). The Global Circulation of Art and the New Market: Abu Dhabi Art Talks 2018. Abu Dhabi, Au Dhabi Art.

Articles in Exhibition Catalogue

• Shabout, N.M. (2015). Odes of Line, Color and New Symbols: Modern Iraqi Art. A Century of Iraqi Art. Bonham’s Auction Catalogue.
• Shabout, N.M. (2014). Utopian Reality: Dia Azzawi, 1964-1974. Dia Azzawi: Selected Works 1964-1974. 14-27. London,
• Shabout, N.M. (2013). Converging on Beauty. Islamic Art Revival Series Second Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art.
• Shabout, N.M. (2012). Rethinking Contemporary Arab Art. Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World. Mori Art Museum.
• Shabout, N.M. (2012). Rethinking Contemporary Arab Art. Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World. Mori Art Museum.
• Shabout, N.M. (2012). To Keep the Dream Alive. Modern Iraqi Art: A Collection. Publication Department of Meem with Art Advisory Associates Ltd.
• Shabout, N.M. (2012). My Roulatte. Hala Al-Khalifa. Doha, Katara Art Center.
• Shabout, N.M., Dercon, C., Shalem, A. (2010). The Challenge of Arab Art. Future of Tradition - Tradition of Future. Munich, Prestel Publishers.
• Shabout, N.M. (2010). The War of Difference. Beyond The War: Contemporary Iraqi Artists of the Diaspora. New York, NY, LTMH Gallery.
• Shabout, N.M. (2010). Equality through a Bottle. Fair Skies, Mahmoud al-Obaidi. Beirut, Ajial Gallery.
• Shabout, N.M. (2010). Eloquent Protests. Waraq, Hayv Kahraman. San Francisco, Frey Norris Gallery.

Book

• Shabout, N.M., Porter, V., Kamarof, L., Rogers, S. (2024). Treasures of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Farjam Collection. Treasures of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Farjam Collection. North Carolina, Duke University Press.
• Shabout, N. (2021). Shifting Terrains: Art, Environment and Urbanism in Iraq. 15, double issue (1-2) 268. London, UK, Journal of Contemporary Iraq and The Arab World, Intellect Books. https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-iraq-the-arab-world
• Shabout, N., Elgibreen, E. After Illusion, Saudi Arabia National Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale. Drago Publishing.
• Shabout, N.M., Rogers, S., Lenssen, A. (2018). Modern Art in the Arab Art : Primary Documents. NYC, MoMA Publications. https://post.at.moma.org/content_items/1082-modern-art-in-the-arab-world-primary-documents
• Shabout, N.M. (2012). Forever Now: Five Anecdotes from the Permanent Collection. Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha. Bloomsbury, Qatar Foundation Publishing.
• Nada Shabout, Wassan al-Khudhairi. (2010). Interventions: A Dialogue Between the Modern and the Contemporary. Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Milan, Skira Publisher.
• Nada SHabout, Wassan al-Khudhairi. (2010). Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art. Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. Milan, Skira Publisher.
• Zainab Bahrani and Nada Shabout. (2009). Modernism and Iraq. New York, Columbia University, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery.
• Salwa Mikdadi and Nada Shabout. (2009). New Vision: Arab Art in the Twenty-First Century. Transglobe Publishing Ltd. and Thames & Hudson.
• Nada Shabout. (2007). Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art. Denton, TX, UNT Art Gallery.
• Nada Shabout. (2007). Modern Arab Art: Formation of an Arab Aesthetic. Gainesville, University of Florida Press.

Book Chapter

• Shabout, N.M. (2025). Enemy of the People: Jewad Selim and the Baghdad Group of Modern Art. Postwar – Towards A Global Art History, ca. 1945-1965. NC, Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/postwar-revisited
• Shabout, N.M. (2025). I Paint for Man. JEWAD SELIM. CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURES. Milano, Skira. https://www.skira-arte.com/products/jewad-selim-catalogue-raisonne-of-paintings-and-sculptures?variant=49599059853654
• Shabout, N.M. (2024). Iraqi Modernism. Dyala Nusseibeh, ed., Richard Mille Art Book 2023, Icon/Iconic. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Culture and Tourism.
• Shabout, N.M. (2023). Performing Modernity through the Arabic Letter: Textual Abstract Formations. Scripts & Calligraphy: Paths to The Soul, Second Edition. Milano, Skira. https://www.amazon.com/Scripts-Calligraphy-Path-Soul-Skira/dp/885724881X
• Shabout, N.M. (2023). Contemporary Aesthetics of Urgency. A Picture of Poetry: The Artist's Books of Dia al-Azzawi. Milano, Skira.
• Shabout, N. (2019). Contemporary Trajectories: Iraqi Art in Context. Sheila Blair and Jonathan Bloom, eds., Islamic Art: Past, Present and Future. Yale University Press.
• Shabout, N. (2019). On Modern Arab Visual Creation in a Global Context. in Jean-Francois Charnier and Simone Verde, eds., Louvre Abu Dhabi. Skira Publishing.
• Shabout, N.M. (2018). Modernism, Palestine and the Arab World. Nabil Anani. London, Al-Saqi Press.
• Shabout, N.M., Kholeif, O. (2015). Collecting Modern Iraqi Art. Imperfect Chronology: Arab Art from the Modern to the Contemporary. London, Prestel.
• Shabout, N.M., Keshmirshekan, H. (2015). Framing the Discipline of Contemporary Art of the Arab World through the Press. Contemporary Art and Discourses from the Middle East. London, I.B. Tauris.
• Shabout, N.M., Lindgren, A.C., Ross, S. (2015). Modernism and the visual arts in the Middle East and North Africa. The Modernist World. Routledge.
• Shabout, N.M., Rogers, S. (2014). Darat al-Funun: From a Mirage to a Home. Anthology on the Shoman Private Collection. Shoman Foundation.
• Nada Shabout. (2012). Bifurcations of Iraq's Visual Culture. We are All Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War. 3-25. Syracuse University Press.
• Nada Shabout. (2012). Collecting Iraqi Art. Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World. Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
• Nada Shabout. (2011). In Lieu of the Sublime. Art in Iraq Today. Skira Publisher.
• Nada Shabout. (2010). "The Challenge of Arab Art." In Editors, Chris Dercon and Avinoam Shalem, Future of Tradition - Tradition of Future..
• Nada Shabout. (2010). Images and Status: Visualizing Iraqi Women. Muslim Women in War and Crisis: from Reality to Representation. Austin, University of Texas Press.
• Nada Shabout. (2010). Trading Cultures: The Boundary Issues of Globalization. History of Visual Culture: Western Civilization from the 18th to the 21st Century. Berg Publishers.
• Nada Shabout. (2010). Usurping History: Iraqi Art, Monuments and Artists. Homeworks IV: A Forum on Cultural Practices. Beirut,
• Shabout, N.M. (2009). Dia al-Azzawi. Dia al-Azzawi: Retrospective. 1-27. Abu Dhabi, Meem for ADMAF.
• Nada Shabout. (2006). Forgotten Era: Modern and Contemporary Iraqi Art. Créations Artistiques Contemporaines en Pays d'Islam: des Arts en Tension. Paris, Editions Kimé.
• Nada Shabout. (2006). Preservation of Iraqi Modern Heritage in the Aftermath of the US Invasion of 2003. An anthology on Ethics in the Art World. Allworth Press.

Book Review

• Nada Shabout. (2007). The Politics of Art History, a book review of Gannit Ankori, Palestinian Art. Arab Studies Quarterly. 29 (2) 57-61.
• Nada Shabout. (2006). Women and the Politics of Presentation, a book review of Carol Malt, Women’s Voices in Middle Eastern Museums: Case Studies. Jordan. H-Gender-MidEast. http://www.h-net.org/~gend-mid/
• Nada Shabout. (2004). Review of "Architects and the 'Building World' from Chambers to Ruskin: Constructing Authority, by Brian Hanson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003. Newsletter of the Historians of British Art.

Broadcast Media

• Shabout, N.M. (2017). Intercultural bridges and the Memory Matrix (Part 1&2) , with Roger Malina, Shafaq Ahmed, Azra Askamija and Nada Shabout. Dallas, TX, https://creativedisturbance.org
• Shabout, N.M. (2016). “Freedom in the non-structure” – Saleem Al-Bahloly in conversation with the art historian Nada Shabout. https://trafo.hypotheses.org/3429

Catalogue Essay

• Shabout, N.M. (2022). To Be A Woman.... Afifa Aleiby: Rivers Converging exhibition. Berlin, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin. https://www.afifaaleiby.com/resources/to-be-a-woman/
• Shabout, N. (2022). To Point to the Stars. Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset / Works: 1986-2022. National Pavillion UAE/Venice Biennale. https://nationalpavilionuae.org/art/2022-2/
• Shabout, N. (2021). When Images Speak, What do they Say?. When Images Speak: Highlights from the Dubai Collection. Dubai, https://dubaicollection.ae/en/exhibition/when-images-speak
• Shabout, N. (2021). Jewad Selim. Monument for the Unknown Political Prisoner. Berlin, Germany, Atelierhaus Dahlem gGmbH, Berlin. https://kunsthaus-dahlem.de/en/ausstellung/the-unknown-political-prisoner/
• Shabout, N. (2020). Asserting Contemporaneity: Miniature Painting today. Miniature 2.0. Istanbul,
• Shabout, N. (2020). Who We Are and How We Are Seen. Elena del Rivero: The Frozen Archive. Madrid, Old Slaughter House.
• Shabout, N. (2020). Mediating Abstraction through the Arabic Letter. Taking Shape: Abstraction from The Arab World, 1950s-1980s. Munich, Hirmer Publishers. https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/taking-shape-arab-abstraction-1950s-1980s-barjeel-january-14-april-4-2020/
• Shabout, N. (2019). Dafatir: Testimonies of Forgotten Times. Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011. NYC, MoMA PS1.
• Shabout, N.M. (2018). A Dialogue with Modernism. Dia Al-Azzawi: A Retrospective (From 1963 Until Tomorrow). Doha, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and Skira Press.
• Shabout, N.M. (2018). The Baghdad Group for Modern Art: A Legacy for a Future. That Feverish Leap into the Fierceness of Life Exhibition Catalogue, Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, Art Dubai Press, 2018. Dubai,
• Shabout, N.M. (2017). Into Existence: Shakir Hassan Al Said’s Retractive Journey. Archaic: The Pavilion of Iraq. London, Mousse Publishing, Ruya Foundation.
• Shabout, N.M. (2017). Textures of Significance: Hanaa Malallah. From Figuration to Abstraction. London, Park Gallery.
• Mouasher, M. (2016). Localizing and Globalizing Aesthetics in Arab Art. Modern and Contemporary Arab Art from the Levant. Amsterdam, Schilt Publishing.
• Shabout, N.M., Stanly, T., Tuqan, S. (2016). What’s in A Name?: Contemplating the “Islamic” in the “Contemporary. Jameel Prize 4, Victoria & Albert Museum.

Conference Proceeding

• Shabout, N.M., Robinson, D. (2015). Ghosts of Future Pasts: Iraqi Culture in a State of Suspension. Through the Roadblocks Reader. NeMe.

Encyclopedia Article

• Shabout, N.M., Ross, S. (2016). Selim, Jewad, Azzawi, Dia, Haidar, Kadhim, Nasiri, Rafa, Huroufiyah, Umar, Madiha. Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (REM). Routledge.

Journal Article

• Shabout, N. (2020). Rethinking contemporary Arab Art. Madrid, Casa Arabe Journal AWRAQ. https://issuu.com/casaarabe/docs/awraq_19_completa
• Shabout, N., Rogers, S., Lenssen, A. (2020). On Language and Modern Art: A Reflection,” in the June 2020.. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. Special Focus Roundtable, Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents. 54(1) 71–79. US, Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-middle-east-studies/latest-issue
• Shabout, N. (2020). Decolonizing Art History. Journal of Art Historiography. Art History. London, The Association of Art History.
• Shabout, N.M. (2015). Dia Azzawi: Ballads to Bilad al-Sawad. Contemporary Practices: Visual Arts from the Middle East. 16
• Shabout, N.M. (2014). Whose Space is it?. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 46 (1)
• Nada Shabout. (2013). "A Makeover: Baghdad, the 2013 Arab Capital of Culture.".
• Nada Shabout and Isis Nusair. (2013). "Cinquante ans d'art modern (tout) contre l'Occident" in Le dossier central de ce numéro est intitulé "L'Egypte en son miroir, Arts et littératures, XIXe-XXIe siècle.".
• Shabout, N.M., Lenssen, A., Rogers, S., Ramadan, D. (2013). Introduction, the Longevity of Rupture: 1967 in Art and its Histories. Other. 2 (2) 14-18. MIT Press Journals.
• Nada Shabout and Isis Nusair. (2013). The Cultural Costs of the 2003 US-Led Invasion of Iraq: A Conversation with Art Historian Nada Shabout. Feminist Studies. 39 (1) 119-148.
• Shabout, N.M. (2011). Review of "Baghdad Mem/Wars" by Sama al-Shaibi and Dena al-Adeeb. Other.
• Nada Shabout, Wassan al-Khudhairi. (2010). The Arabic Connection in Articulating North African Modernity in Art. Other. 109 (3) 329-343.
• Shabout, N.M. (2010). Arab presence in Venice Biennale. Arab Studies Journal. XVIII (1) 356-360.
• Shabout, N.M. (2009). "Are Images Global?" in the online journal Tate Papers in English, Autumn issue, and in the Nafas Art Magazine in English, Arabic, and German. http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/..
• Nada Shabout. (2009). "Iraqi Art: Dafatir" in The State of the Arts in the Middle East.
• Nada Shabout. (2009). Art without History? Evaluating 'Arab' Art. Other. 42 (1/2)
• Nada Shabout. (2006). "Cultural Destruction and its Implications." http://www.arteeast.org/artenews/artenews-articles2006/political-art/artenews-shabout.html Related Links: http://www.arteeast.org/artenews/artenews-articles2006/political-art/artenews-shabout.html.
• Nada Shabout. (2006). "Recovering Iraq's Modern Heritage: Constructing and Digitally Documenting the Collection of the former Saddam Center for the Arts.".
• Shabout, N.M. (2006). Historiographic Invisibilities: The Case of Contemporary Iraqi Art. International Journal for the Humanities. 3 (9) 53-64.
• Nada Shabout. (2006). The 'Free' Art of Occupation: Images for a 'New' Iraq. Arab Studies Quarterly. 28 (3/4) 41-55.
• Nada Shabout. (2006). The Politics of Presentation. Palace and Mosque: Islamic Art from the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition. Arab Studies Journal. 234-40.
• Shabout, N.M. (2006). The Iraqi Museum of Modern Art: Ethical Implications. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals. 2 (4) 285-298. Alta Mira Press.
• Nada Shabout. (2005). "The Forgotten Era: Modern Art in Iraq".
• Nada Shabout. (2005). "Understanding Islamic Aesthetics.".
• Nada Shabout. (2004). "Report on Losses to Iraq's Modern Art Heritage.".
• Nada Shabout. (1994). Turning the Outside In…The Russian Unofficial Movement 1953-1988. The 1950's unofficial movement in Russian art in conjunction with the New Russian art: Paintings From the Christian Keesee Collection.

Magazine/Trade Publication

• Shabout, N. (2019). Frequently Asked Questions in Art. Selections. Beirut, https://selectionsarts.com/art/frequently-asked-questions-what-makes-an-artwork-more-valuable-than-another-and-who-desides/
• Shabout, N.M. (2018). Transregional Solidarity: The Arab Biennial in Retrospect. #5 Refractions of Socialist Solidarity, Mezosfera’s fifth thematic issue is published in conjunction with the Budapest presentation of the three-channel film Two Meetings and a Funeral, edited by Eszter Szakács. Budapest, http://mezosfera.org/transregional-solidarity/
• Shabout, N.M. (2017). On Identity, Iraq and Individuality: Nada Shabout Interviews Reem Alkadhi, Hayv Kahraman and Hanaa Malallah. Selections: A Dialogue Between Generations of Arab Women in Art #42. (#42) 62-79. Beirut, http://www.selectionsarts.com/2017/12/on-art-identity-and-labels-selections-issue-42/
• Shabout, N.M. (2016). Dia Al-Azzawi: ‘I am Iraq’ in Harper Bazaar Art Arabia. (44) Harper Bazaar Art Arabia.

Newspaper

• Shabout, N. (2021). An ancient treasure may be returned to Iraq. Many others are still lost. Washington DC, Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/31/epic-of-gilgamesh-tablet-hobby-lobby-iraq-looted-art/
• Shabout, N.M. (2017). Opinion: Why You Should Care About Islamic Art. Richmond, Virginia, Style Weekly. https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/opinion-why-you-should-care-about-islamic-art/Content?oid=5378043

On Air Radio Art Review

• Shabout, N. (2020). Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNT: Episode 48: Documenting Iraq's Missing Modern Art with Dr. Nada Shabout. Denton, https://olli.unt.edu/podcast

Other

• Shabout, N.M. (2013). What role can the archive play in developing and sustaining a localised and culturally specific art history?. Ibraaz Platform 06. http://www.ibraaz.org/platforms/6/responses/144/

Personal Essay

• Shabout, N.M. (2016). Fading Memories, Brown Book. http://brownbook.tv/memories-from-baghdad/

Scholarly Preface

• Shabout, N.M. (2024). The Strength of Passionate Research. Huda AbiFaris, ed., Revealing Recording Reflecting: Graphic Women from Southwest Asia and North Africa. Khatt Foundation.
• Shabout, N.M. (2023). In Search of Meaning in History. A Museum in a Book: The Ibrahimi Collection. Milano, Skira Editore.
• Shabout, N.M. (2023). Memories of Love and Knowledge. Myrna Ayad, ed., Alcove: Intimate Essays of Modern Arab Artists.

catalogue Raisonné

• Shabout, N.M., Hess, V.D., Rashwan, H. (2017). Egypt and Early Arab Modernism. Mahmoud Said Catalogue Raisonné. Milan,

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Fellowship

• Shabout, N.M. (Principal), "Senior Humanities Research Fellow," sponsored by The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World, International, $130000 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
• Shabout, N.M. (Principal), "Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship 2022-2023," sponsored by Loughborough University, International, $10000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).

Grant - Research

• Shabout, N.M. (Co-Principal), "NEH Collaborative Research Grant," sponsored by NEH, Federal, $10000 Funded. ( - 2024).
• Shabout, N. (Principal), "Mapping Art Histories in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey Project, 2019-2021," sponsored by Getty Foundation, National, $88000 Funded. (2019 - 2022).
• Shabout, N.M., "Arts Writer Grant , 2017-2018," sponsored by Andy Warhol Foundation, International, $50000.00 Funded. (2018 - 2018).
• Shabout, N.M., "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award," University of North Texas, $5000.00 Funded. ( - 2018).
• Shabout, N.M. (Principal), "Mapping Art Histories in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey," sponsored by The Getty Foundation, NFP, Funded. (2019 - 2023).
• Shabout, N. (Principal), "Mapping Art Histories in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey Project, 2019-2021," sponsored by Getty Foundation, National, Funded. (2019 - 2022).
• Shabout, N., "Arts Writer Grant , 2017-2018," sponsored by Andy Warhol Foundation, International, Funded. (2018 - 2018).

Sponsored Research

• Shabout, N.M. (Principal), "Developmental Leave," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, Funded. (2018 - 2019).