Curator and scholar Fereshteh Daftari received her Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University (1988). Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking (2006) was among a number of exhibitions she curated while working at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1988-2009). As an independent curator and scholar she has continued writing and curating international exhibitions of Middle Eastern art, with a focus on the modern and contemporary art of Iran.