Reminiscences of Leeza Ahmady : oral history, 2002-2003.

Biographical Note

Curator/Dancer.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: Kabul, Afghanistan and Pakistan; immigration to New York; education: B.A. International Relations St. John's University, Arts and Cultural Management Pratt Institute; career: curator specializing in Central Asian contemporary art, dance instructor, founder of Central Asian Women's Forum, program coordinator at the International Young Men's Christian Association, managerial work for sister's Chinese medicine practice, work with Institute for Hermetic Philosophy; 9/11: television coverage, dissociation as coping mechanism; post-9/11: discussion of the hijab, South Asian dance, comments on Central Asian artists, national cross cultural arts movements, Museum of Modern Art Kabul, School of Hope in Afghanistan.

Subjects

• Afghans--United States--Interviews.
• Ahmady, Leeza, 1972---Interviews.
• Art--Asia, Central.
• Art dealers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Saed, Zohra, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

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