Royal Portraits and Embedded Stories Court Paintings and State Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Tunisia (1837-1881) (2020)

A Lecture by
RIDHA MOUMNI
Curator, Art Historian
Postdoctoral Fellow at CMES, Harvard University

Ridha Moumni is curator and art historian. He obtained his Ph.D in Art History and Archaeology from the Sorbonne, in Paris. His research explores Tunisian classical, modern and contemporary art from a global and transnational perspective, with a specific interest in collecting practices and intellectual history. Dr. Moumni has won prizes in the fields of art history and curatorship. In 2010, he became the first Tunisian fellow to join the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici). He has curated photography and modern art exhibitions, and he has curated a major exhibition to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Independence of Tunisia: The Awakening of a Nation: Art at the Dawn of Modern Tunisia (1837-1881) held in Qasr es-Saïd. He has recently published with Elsa Despiney, Artistes de Tunisie, a book on the twentieth-century tunisian artists. Ridha Moumni has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Aga Khan Program of Islamic Architecture at Harvard University in 2018. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.