She helped at the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre Museum in Paris for the preparation of the new display which opened in September 2012.Īt MIA, she has curated Hajj – The Journey through Art (2013 - 2014) in collaboration with the British Museum, Building Our Collection: Ceramics of Al Andalus (2014), and Qajar Women (2015). Chekhab-Abudaya taught Islamic Art at BA and MA levels for four years at the Pantheon Sorbonne and INALCO. She studied Persian and Turkish respectively at INALCO and the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Paris.ĭr. Chekhab-Abudaya holds a degree in Literal Arabic from the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO). For the 2017-2018 Academic year, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya has undertaken a research project in Harvard university as a post-doctoral research associate, in the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture. in Islamic Art History and Archaeology at the Pantheon Sorbonne University in Paris and is specialized on the Western Mediterranean, manuscripts and pilgrimage-related devotional materials in the Islamic world. Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya is Senior Curator at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar.

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