Nadine Atallah is an art historian and curator holding a PhD from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is a researcher specialising in the Middle East and North Africa at the Centre Pompidou and an associate researcher at InVisu (CNRS/INHA). Her main research interests include modern art in Egypt and gender issues. By examining the political stakes of art through the prisms of nationalism and feminism, her award-winning work contributes to reconsidering modernism’s framework from the perspective of Arab contexts. Since 2017, she has co-organised yearly research seminars in France focusing on art in the Arab region and the Global South. She has also taught global art history at the École européenne supérieure d’art de Bretagne (EESAB).
Atallah has published many academic articles and is preparing two books, including a monograph dedicated to Egyptian artist Inji Efflatoun. Nadine Atallah has curated several contemporary art exhibitions, including the group exhibition Mu’awiya’s Thread at 32Bis, Tunis, 2023.
