Dr. Monique Bellan
Monique Bellan works as a postdoctoral researcher in the LAWHA project. She previously worked as research associate at the Orient-Institut Beirut (2013-2019) where she examined aesthetic reflection and art critique in twentieth-century Lebanon and Egypt. She also worked at the collaborative research centre Aesthetic Experience and the Dissolution of Artistic Limits at Freie Universität Berlin and the Performing Arts Section of the Academy of Arts in Berlin
She holds a PhD in Arabic Studies from Freie Universität Berlin, an MA in Islamic Studies, Sociology and Political Science from the University of Bonn, and an MA in Library and Information Science from Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. Within LAWHA she focuses in particular on exhibition practices, art critique and the database and digital platform (DDP).
