About the Author

SAEB EIGNER is a patron of the Arts, with a particular interest in modern and contemporary art of the Middle East. He was the British Museum's senior adviser for its landmark exhibition Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East (2006 and touring 2008). ZAHA HADID is one of the world's most distinguished architects, and in 2004 became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.