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Navina Najat Haidar
Indian art historian and curator
Navina Najat Haidar is an art historian and curator, and currently serves as the chief curator of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Life
Haidar was born in London to Salman Haidar, an Indian diplomat, and Kusum Haidar, an Indian stage actress. She was educated in India, and also spent parts of her childhood in Afghanistan, Bhutan, and New York, as a consequence of her father's diplomatic postings.
She was initially educated in India at Bal Bharati School in Delhi, Lawrence School Sanawar and St. Stephen's College, Delhi University. She later studied at Oxford University, where she completed a doctorate in art history, studying the Kishangarh school of painting in the 18th century.
Her husband, Bernard Haykel, is of Lebanese and Polish descent, and teaches at Princeton University.[1][2][3][4]
Career
Haider was appointed the Nasser Sabah al-Ahmad al-Saba