Farida R. Khan

I am an art historian and studied art history and languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. I have delivered gallery lectures on arms and armour at the Wallace Collection, London and worked on curatorial projects at the Ashmolean Museum, Museum of History of Science and Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.

I work on Private Collections in a research and advisory role.

Writing has appeared in; Scroll.In, Middle East Eye, Mondoweiss, Funoon London, The New Arab and Asian Review of Books.

For writing, research and advisory commissions, get in touch:

[email protected]

Middle East Eye

Arabfuturism: How Arab artists are building the world of tomorrow

Mondoweiss

A new vision of Palestine: reviewing ‘In the Shade of the Sun’

The New Arab

Artists making books: poetry to politics by Venetia Porter, British Museum.

Scroll.in

With ‘Suspended in Time’, Ali Kazim addresses the decolonisation debate in the art world

How the Partition almost killed the glorious tradition of Punjabi phulkari embroidery

Asian Review of Books

Mamluks: 1250-1517, Louvre, Paris

Ali Banisadr: The Alchemist

Ancient India at The British Museum

The Great Mughals, Art, Architecture and Opulence by Susan Stronge

Mansur by Vikrmajit Ram

Silk Roads British Museum

Breathing Space: Iranian Women Photographers by Anahita Ghabaian

Jali: Lattice of Divine Light in Mughal Architecture

China’s Hidden Century at the British Museum

Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece British Museum

“Island of Bewilderment” by Simin Daneshvar

“Hafez in Love” by Iraj Pezeshkzad

“The Silk Road and Beyond: Narratives of a Muslim Historian” by Iftikhar H Malik

Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World

“Four Dervishes” by Hammad Rind”

“The Lost Fragrance of Infinity” by Moin Mir

Essays

Abu Zayd, Master Potter and Poet of Kashan

Emperor Qianlong’s fascination with ‘Hindustan’ Jades

Meissen Porcelain and ‘Indian’ Stylistic Influences

Ivory and Jade: Opulent hilts in the Oriental Armouries, Wallace Collection

Waqas Khan at the Manchester Museum

Phulkari Textiles from Punjab at the Philadelphia Museum

Ceramic Arts of the Islamic World