Mirjam Shatanawi

Mirjam Shatanawi is researcher and curator in the field of Islamic heritage and colonial collections. She obtained a PhD at the University of Amsterdam on the almost complete absence of Indonesia within the narrative of Islamic art and culture in Dutch museums. From 2001 until 2019, she worked as a curator at the Wereldmuseum. Nowadays, she teaches heritage theory at the Reinwardt Academie in Amsterdam and conducts research into the colonial manuscript collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV).