Inspired by the East

William Greenwood is Curator at the Zayed National Museum, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. He was previously Albukhary Foundation Curator of the Islamic World at the British Museum and co-curator of the exhibition Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art.Lucien de Guise is an author and co-curator of the exhibition Inspired by the East: how the Islamic world influenced Western art. Having spent many years working in Malaysia as a museum curator and director, he is now Associate Curator of the Isl amic Arts Museum Malaysia, based in London. Professor Ali Behdad is John Charles Hillis Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Dr Catherine L. Futter is Director of Cultural Affairs at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. Dr Mary Kelly (n¿Healy) is Lecturer in Contemporary Art History, Theory and Gallery Studies and Director of the MA in Global Gallery Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. Dr William Kynan-Wilson is Assistant Professor in Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Aalborg, Denmark. Briony Llewellyn is an independent art historian specialising in British artists¿ depictions of the Near and Middle East. John M. MacKenzie is an historian and scholar of imperial cultural history, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Lancaster, UK.