Research Participation Highlights

Publications

• 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 Blog Post
  Ammagui, Nada. “Wādi Tāyīn: Then and Now.” OpenGulf: Blogs, Github, 23 July 2020, opengulf.github.io/July2020Wadiblog/.
• Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, 2019: Undergraduate Research Workshop Abstract and Poster
  Ammagui, Nada. “Artistic Taste-Making at the Sharjah Biennial.” Review of Middle East Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 21 Oct. 2020, pp. 125–126., doi:10.1017/rms.2020.8.

Presentations & Interviews

• NYUAD Winter Institute in Digital Humanities at NYC Digital Humanities Week Workshop
  Workshop entitled Using Google Sheets to Create, Organize, and Explore Your Humanities Data (available for download on Zenodo) geared towards Humanities practitioners aiming to employ digital tools in their research; given on February 11, 2021.
• 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.
• Data and Human Space Expert Chat with Dr. David Wrisley & Nada Ammagui
  Interview for NYU Abu Dhabi core course, Data and Human Space, taught by Professor David Wrisley, Fall 2020.

Experience Highlights

• 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 19^th century French gazetteer and transcribed 18^th century English letters on From the Page
  • Annotated 1,000+ toponyms in 20^th 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
• Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon