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Nancy Micklewright, Editor, Mohamed Zakariya – A 21st century Master Calligrapher
Nancy Micklewright speaks about the life and work of calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya and his legacy. She is the editor of the recently published 'Mohamed Zakariya – A 21st century Master Calligrapher' (Fons Vitae 2022)
Nancy Micklewright writes about visual culture in the Ottoman Empire with a focus on gender, and is currently working on her new book, Dressing for the Camera, Fashion and Photography in the late Ottoman Empire. Through 2019 she was Head of Public and Scholarly Engagement at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. A former university professor and senior program officer at the Getty Foundation, she has a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in the History of Islamic Art and Architecture.
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