She is the Consulting Director of the Research Center on Arab Modernity at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar. She is the Senior Curator for the inaugural exhibition at Mathaf, Sajjil: A Century of Modern Art, and curator of Interventions: A dialogue between the Modern and the Contemporary. Her teaching and writing interests are in the area of Arab and Islamic visual culture, theory and history, imperialism, Orientalism and globalization. She is the author of Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics, University of Florida Press, 2007; co-editor of New Vision: Arab Art in the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson, 2009; and the founding president of the Association for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World, Iran and Turkey (AMCA).