Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh honored at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn New York Gala  (November 2023)! 

Sahar Amer (Ph.D. in French, Yale University, 1994) is Ghada Amer’s Director of Communications and Principal Content Writer. She has collaborated with Ghada Amer on a number of projects, including “The Encyclopedia of Pleasure,” “Majnun,” “One Hundred Words of Love,” and “The Words I Love the Most.” Prior to this role, she was Professor of French and Arab Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (USA) and Professor and Chair of the Department of Arabic Language and Cultures at the University of Sydney (Australia). Her primary research interests focus on the relations between Arab and Muslim societies and the West, and the notion of borders (cultural, linguistic, historical and geographic), not as elements of separation and division, but rather as fluid spaces of cultural exchange, adaptation, and collaboration. She has published several academic books, dozens of book chapters and journal articles and received prestigious honors and awards.