Global Art Daily E-Magazine Article Ammagui, Nada. “Sharjah Art Foundation Jets Ahead on the Flying Saucer.” Global Art Daily, 9 Dec. 2020, e-issues.globalartdaily.com/Sharjah-Art-Foundation-Jets-Ahead-on-the-Flying-Saucer.
OpenGulf BlogPost Ammagui, Nada. “Wādi Tāyīn: Then and Now.” OpenGulf: Blogs, Github, 23 July 2020, opengulf.github.io/July2020Wadiblog/.
Middle East Librarians Association Annual Conference 2020 Presentation Presentation entitled Team-Based Manipulation of Digitally Available Texts in a Remote Environment: Notes on Research and Pedagogy on Social Justice/Decolonizing the Library panel (with Dr. David Wrisley, Dr. Nora Barakat, and Gurgen Tadevosyan) on October 21, 2020.
Arts & Humanities Postgraduate Research Fellow at NYUAD
Conducting geospatial research on the Sharjah Biennial and collecting artwork data from previous SB iterations
Giving workshops geared towards Humanities practitioners on using Google Sheets to organize, manipulate, and visualize data
HarvardX: August 2020
Completed verified track of DH101 Introduction to Digital Humanities online course
OpenGulf Research Project: May–July 2020 Postgraduate Research Assistant
Worked with team of 6 remote researchers to conduct digital analyses of historical corpora on Gulf geographies
Corrected OCR on 19th century French gazetteer and transcribed 18th century English letters on From the Page
Annotated 1,000+ toponyms in 20th century British gazetteer of the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf using Recogito
Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism: May–July 2019 Education and Outreach Intern
Researched and developed Visual Thinking Strategies manual for “Popular Culture and the City” exhibition (featuring art by Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, and Taysir Batniji) for docents
Brainstormed educational guide ideas for visitors to Najat Makki exhibition at the Cultural Foundation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: September–December 2018 Islamic Art Department Intern
Researched and digitized 900+ of Sir K.A.C Creswell’s Islamic architectural photographs using cataloguing software
Assisted department director with translating 600+ numismatic objects from Arabic to English
Learned about different museum departments with staff from Design, Archives, Registrar, and Conservation
Books I’ve been reading
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak