Massumeh Farhad is an American curator, art historian, and author. She is the Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the

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and

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at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Asian Art. She is known for her work with Persian 17th-century manuscripts.

Biography

Farhad has a PhD (1987) in art history from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. In 1997, she had been in a relationship with the Chief Curator of the

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, Philip L. Ravenhill (1945–1997) before his death. She has contributed to the

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. Farhad has curated numerous exhibitions including the "Art of the Persian Courts" (1996), "The Heroic Past: The Persian Book of Kings" (2000), "Fountains of Light: The Nuhad Es-Said Collection of Metalwork" (2000), "

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and the Persian Image" (2001), "The Adventures of

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" (2002), "Style and Status: Imperial Costumes From Ottoman Turkey" (2005), "Facing East: Portraits from Asia" (2006), " Falnama: The Book of Omens" (2009), and "The Art of

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: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art" (2016–2017).

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