Pamela Erskine-Loftus

Pamela Erskine-Loftus is the director of the forthcoming Media Majlis. She received her MA in museum studies from the University of Leicester, with a dissertation with distinction of the effects of the 1991 Gulf War on art museums in Kuwait and Iraq, and a PhD in Arabian Peninsula Museology from Newcastle University, UK.

Her professional experience includes appointments in the US at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and at The Museum of Modern Art in New York where she managed the department of education. Prior positions in the Arabian Peninsula include with Sharjah Museums Department, UAE, where she was founding head of interpretation and education, and with Qatar Museums where she was concept curator for a new museum.

Since 2012 she has worked on several independent projects including the creation of MAPcollective, an online platform on Arabian museum practice and research.  She is the editor and contributor to three books: Reimagining Museums: Practice in the Arabian Peninsula (MuseumsEtc. 2013), Museums and the Material World: Collecting the Arabian Peninsula (MuseumsEtc. 2014), and Representing the Nation: heritage, museums, identity and national narratives in the Arab Gulf States (Routledge, forthcoming 2016) as well as contributing to professional journals and magazines.