MENACA 2024
Second Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African and Central Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts
ORGANIZERS
Anthony Shay
Anthony Shay is professor of dance and cultural studies at Pomona College. He holds a PhD in Dance History and Theory. His most recent publication: Folk Dance and the Construction of National Identities: Staging the Folk (Palgrave Macmillan), is due in May 2023. He is editor and contributor to Dance in the Persianate World: History Aesthetics, and Performance, (Mazda Publishers) due in Spring 2023.
Roberta Dougherty
Roberta L. Dougherty is the Librarian for Middle East Studies at the Yale University Library. She has numerous presentations and publications on a variety of topics to her credit, from the histories of Arabic printing, American Orientalism, and U.S. collections of Islamic manuscripts, to the social construction of performance and the expressive arts in the Middle East, particularly in Egypt.
Shaharzad Khorsandi
Shahrzad Khorsandi is an Iranian-American choreographer (BA in Dance; MA in Creative Arts). Artistic director of Shahrzad Dance Company, she teaches and performs internationally. Author of The Art of Persian Dance, she is also a member of an international research team, studying the effects of dance on the brain.
Maria Faidi
Maria Faidi is a dancer, researcher and teacher. She holds an MA in Political Science (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and a PhD in Dance Studies (University of Chichester, UK). Her research focus on Golden Era Egyptian cinema.
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