Noha Sadek
A specialist in Yemeni art and architecture, Noha Sadek has taught courses on Islamic art at the University of Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon and the American University of Beirut. She was Director of the American Institute for Yemeni Studies in Sanaa, Yemen from 1995-1997 and has worked on exhibitions at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and the National Museum of Lebanon in Beirut. Sadek has published numerous articles on the medieval architecture of Yemen, and served as Editor of Studies on Medieval Yemen (2003) and Studies in the Archaeology of Yemen (2002), both in Arabic. She has two works in progress: Rasulid Art and Architecture in Yemen (626-858 AH/1229-1454 AD): Power and Legitimacy and “Centres de pouvoir, centres de savoir: les villes du Yémen à lépoque rasulide,” in Formation et evolution des systèmes urbains en Arabie du Sud: des cites pré-islamiques aux résaux urbains des périodes médiévales et moderne. Dr. Sadek resides in Beirut and Paris and received her Ph.D. in Middle East and Islamic Studies from the University of Toronto in 1990.
