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NYU Abu Dhabi arts and humanities faculty and researchers are frequently featured in local and international media.

NYU Abu Dhabi is on a Mission to Preserve Arab Visual Art
Inside the new ‘Arab Center for the Study of Art’.
Mille | January 22, 2021

Aiming to Revise Canon, Arab Art Center Opens at NYU Abu Dhabi
New York University Abu Dhabi has opened its Arab Center for the Study of Art, which is dedicated to research on the visual art and photography of Western Asia and North Africa.
Art News | January 13, 2021

New Abu Dhabi art centre sets to reshape ‘historical narrative’
The Arab Center for the Study of Art, opened in New York University’s Abu Dhabi campus, aims to use a multi-disciplinary approach to better contextualise Arab visual arts in Asia and North Africa.
The Arab Weekly | January 14, 2021

Center for the Study of Arab Art Opens in Abu Dhabi
The Arab Center for the Study of Art has opened at New York University Abu Dhabi. 
Future DXB | January 14, 2021

The region's first academic centre for the study of Arab art opens in Abu Dhabi
'We need to set our own standards, our own historical narrative about this region from this region', says Salwa Mikdadi, a professor of art history at NYUAD.
The National | January 13, 2021

23 photos from the Arab world that were almost lost forever
NYU Abu Dhabi’s Akkasah is using its 33,000 archived photographs to help preserve the Arab world’s cultural memory – and it has digitised more than 10,000 images so that they will live on
The National | March 19, 2020