Alexander Barakat
Raised in Beverly Hills but based in London, Alexander Barakat is an art critic
and arts and culture correspondent dealing primarily with contemporary Arab
and Iranian art. He is currently completing his degree at the School of Oriental
and African Studies pursuing art history and music, specialising in the art history
of the Middle East from antiquity to the modern day and the art-music traditions of the Arab world. He has been published in Canvas and has contributed
to various other publications including Oasis and Unfair, and authors the Dia
Diwan art blog. Barakat is currently the editor-and-chief of Muraqqa, a periodical based on his own personal initiative launched in October 2009, and still
continues to free-lance with other prominent arts related publications.
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