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Olga Nefedova
Olga Nefedova is an art historian and the former director of the Orientalist Museum in Doha, Qatar. She has worked for many years with private and government collections in the Far East, Middle East and the Gulf countries (Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia). Her projects include the following international exhibitions and publications: The Art and Life of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour (1671–1737), A Journey into the World of the Ottomans, Bartholomäus Schachman (1559–1614): The Art of Travel, Heritage of Art Diplomacy: Memoirs of an Ambassador and many others. She is one of the organizers of the series of international biannual conferences Orientality (Cambridge University, 2013) and editor of the journal Orientality. She is an associate professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow. Currently she is a researcher at the Orient-Institut, Beirut (Max Weber Foundation) – a member of the OIB research project ‘Relations in the Ideoscape: Middle Eastern Students in the Eastern Bloc (1950s to 1991)’.