Hong Kong Palace Museum | HKPM Special Exhibition Talk Series | Threading Histories: Imperial Carpets from Doha to Hong Kong

Mrs Shaika Al-Nassr

Director
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar

Shaika Al-Nassr is the Director of the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Doha, Qatar. Al-Nassr boasts a long history of service at MIA across several roles since 2007. Most recently, Al-Nassr was the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs, where she oversaw the museum’s relaunch in 2022. Prior to this role, Al-Nassr was the Head of Exhibitions, a position she held since 2007. Al-Nassr has managed numerous exhibitions and projects and has also contributed to the MIA publications, including Unseen Treasures (Doha, 2010) and Reading Quranic Manuscripts (Doha, 2011). Al-Nassr completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Islamic Art from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2008, and she holds a Master’s degree in Museum Studies from University College London.

Dr Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya

Deputy Director
Curatorial Affairs
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar

Dr Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya is the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Museum of Islamic Art (MIA), Doha, Qatar. At MIA, she has led the curatorial team during the revamping of the museum’s permanent galleries (2015–2022) and has both curated and co-curated 11 exhibitions including the most recent “Splendours of the Atlas” (2024). Dr Chekhab-Abudaya previously worked with the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre Museum, Paris and taught Islamic Art to undergraduate and graduate students at the Pantheon Sorbonne and the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilisations (INALCO). She holds a PhD in Islamic Art History and Archaeology from the Pantheon Sorbonne University, Paris, specialising in the Western Mediterranean, manuscripts, and pilgrimage-related devotional materials in the Islamic world.

Dr Ingrid Yeung

Associate Curator
Hong Kong Palace Museum

Dr Ingrid Yeung studied Korean and Japanese art history and earned her master’s degree at SOAS, University of London, before receiving a doctorate in Chinese art and archaeology at Yale University. She worked at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, before coming to the Hong Kong Palace Museum. At the Museum, she curated the special exhibitions “Grand Gallop: Art and Culture of the Horse”, “Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London” and “The Adorned Body: French Fashion and Jewellery 1770–1910 from the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris”.