ABOUT

A founding member of the MENARAH Initiative, Nida Jaffer is an emerging art historian specializing in the medieval Islamic Mediterranean. Her research centers on the eco-phenomenology of Islamic art and the materialization of the human-nature relationship in art and architecture. She is particularly interested in how water, as a material and symbolic element, shapes experiences of space, ritual, and authority in the art and architecture of the Fatimid dynasty. 

A PhD student in the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University, Nida earned her BA in History and MA in Art History from the University of Texas at Dallas at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History.