Dr Sami ​De Giosa

Curatorial Consultant and Academic Researcher - Former curator at British Museum, Visiting Lecturer at Cambridge University Centre of Islamic studies and post-doctoral researcher at Oxford University Khalili Islamic Research Centre

UNITED KINGDOM

Dr Sami is a specialist in Islamic art and Islamic history, having lived and worked in the Middle East for over a decade.

​Formerly a curator at the British Museum, Sami recently completed a postdoctorate from the Oxford University Khalili Islamic Research Centre and was a visiting lecturer at the Cambridge University Centre of Islamic Studies whilst, completing his PhD at SOAS.

​He has curated exhibitions on Islamic Art across the world, most recently the Hajj exhibition at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. He now works as a freelance consultant, developing some of the largest museum projects in the Middle East.

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