Residency
Dr. Mariam Rahmani
Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, a center of the Doris Duke Foundation, welcomes Iranian American writer, scholar and translator Dr. Mariam Rahmani, lauded author of the critically acclaimed novel Liquid and faculty member at Bennington College, as its summer Scholar-in-Residence. While in Honolulu, Dr. Rahmani will advance her new book The House of Mourning, a kaleidoscopic tale that traces an art historian’s journey from Paris to Hawai‘i to unpick the entwined histories of gendered, colonial and imperial power that shaped, and were shaped by, the circulation of Islamic art in the West. Immersed in Shangri La’s archives and galleries, she will study the collection along with some of Doris Duke’s archives, to animate the hidden biographies of objects while also mapping the layered realities of indigenous dispossession in Hawai‘i. Public conversations and community programs will foster connections and deepen engagement, exemplifying Shangri La’s residency model and advancing the Doris Duke Foundation’s mission to foster a more creative, equitable and sustainable future.
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ABOUT DR. MARIAM RAHMANI
Dr. Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her debut novel Liquid, A Love Story, has been lauded in outlets like The New York Times Book Review, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, British Vogue, and Foreign Policy, and in interviews with BOMB, Poets & Writers, Image/LA Times, Electric Literature, Lit Hub, and elsewhere. Her fiction, essays, and translations have appeared in the likes of Granta, Gulf Coast, n+1, New York Magazine, and People. Her first translation was well reviewed in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Liquid was named an Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of the Year and a March Book of the Month Club Main Pick. It is currently being translated into Italian, Dutch, and Croatian
Dr. Mariam Rahmani is supported and hosted by Shangri La, a center of the Doris Duke Foundation in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
