Doaa Abdelsattar Kamel Osman

Biography

Doaa currently works as a Museum Curator (Second Grade) at the Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo, where she has worked since 2009. Since 2017, Doaa has been heading the Volunteer Guidance and Storytelling Management where she supervises volunteer guides, develops storytelling programs for visitors, and contributes to both local and international exhibitions – as well as documentation and registration projects.

Presently, Doaa is participating in the digitisation programme of the Museum of Islamic Art Library in Cairo, as part of a collaborative project between the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities and a Korean university.

Additionally, Doaa is involved in training students from faculties of Archaeology, History, and Tourist Guidance on how to present the museum through storytelling techniques and age-appropriate visitor engagement approaches.

Alongside her curatorial work, Doaa presents and contributes to several television programmes that focus on Islamic art, archaeology, and history aiming to raise public awareness of Egypt’s rich cultural heritage.

Doaa holds a BA in Islamic Archaeology from Ain Sham University and has recently obtained a certificate in Cybersecurity. With extensive experience in museum interpretation, artefact registration and documentation, and exhibition preparation – Doaa is deeply passionate about museum education and promoting cross-cultural dialogue through storytelling and heritage interpretation.

As a member of the team working on temporary exhibitions and international exhibition of foreign affairs, Doaa has been working on label and panel writing for the Museum of Islamic Art. She has worked on the temporary exhibition The Power of Unity and selected objects to be displayed the Cairo Airport Museum.

At the British Museum

During her time on the International Training Programme in 2011, Doaa was based in the Department of Egypt and Sudan and her partner placement was spent at Bristol Museums, Galleries and Archives.

In 2011 participants were asked to develop a proposal for a small temporary exhibition using an object from the British Museum’s collections. Doaa’s exhibition project proposal was entitled The Golden Age of the Mamluks.

Doaa’s place on the ITP 2011 was generously supported by the Barakat Trust.