Navina Najat Haidar has been a curator in the Met's department of Islamic art since 1999. She helped lead the planning of the Museum's Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which have welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors since they opened in November 2011.
Haidar is co-author of Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323–1687 (both 2011). She is currently working on an exhibition about the art of India's Deccan sultans.
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Changes regularly! At the moment, I would say El Greco's View of Toledo (Gallery 610), the Dancing Celestial Diety (Gallery 241), and the Southern Mesopotamian ram's head (Gallery 402). But if I really had to choose one it would be "Kai Khusrao discovered by Giv," a folio from a Shahnama.