I am a curator, writer, and speaker with a focus on the arts of Islamic cultures. My specialism is in the history and arts of Iran. Since 2022, I have been The Sarikhani Curator for the Iranian Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

My research interests range from the use of English ceramics in 19th-century Iran and shrine culture in Afghanistan to the politics of cataloging and the ethics of collecting.

My writing about my research and other interests appears in a number of publications such as: The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Hali Magazine, the Oxford Review of Books, and Ajam Media Collective.

I also enjoy speaking and teaching, and have provided lectures and courses at The Wallace Collection, the V&A, the Royal Asiatic Society, SOAS, and Sotheby’s, among other places.

In the past, I’ve worked for the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, the Art History Department of the University of Warwick, and for the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in Kabul, and over the course of my studies and work, I’ve been lucky to spend time in Beirut, Damascus, Amman, and Tehran as well.

In 2025, I completed my DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford with a thesis exploring Fath ‘Ali Shah Qajar’s patronage of the major shrines of Iran and Iraq. Prior to this, I also studied at Oxford for my BA in Persian with Old Iranian languages and MPhil Islamic Art with Arabic.