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Indian art historian and curator

Navina Najat Haidar is an art historian and curator, and currently serves as the chief curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

An essay in the Met's catalogue by Navina Najat Haider.

Marika Sardar and Navina Haider, Sultans of Deccan India, – Opulence and Fantasy (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ).

Lincoln Center brings together a group of distinguished NYC-based writers and creators of Indian descent for a discussion on what inspires their artistic.

The extraordinarily diverse collections in Asian and African Studies constitute one of the world's finest resources for the study of Asia.

In this episode, we follow two people who seek the truth in trash—an archaeologist who excavates ancient rubbish in Turkmenistan and an artist.

Life

Haidar was born in London to Salman Haidar, an Indian diplomat, and Kusum Haidar, an Indian stage actress. She was educated in India, and also spent parts of her childhood in Afghanistan, Bhutan, and New York, as a consequence of her father's diplomatic postings.

She was initially educated in India at Bal Bharati School in Delhi, Lawrence School Sanawar and St. Stephen's College, Delhi University. She later studied at Oxford University, where she completed a doctorate in art history, studying the Kishangarh school of painting in the 18th century.

Her husband, Bernard Haykel, is of Lebanese and Polish descent, and teaches at Princeton University.^[1][2][3][4]

Career

Haider was appointed the Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Saba