The Modern Art Iraq Archive (MAIA) project works to document Iraq’s rich but threatened modern artistic heritage. This project prototypes a participatory content-management system to trace, share and enable community enrichment around this art. MAIA houses images of works of art, many of them now lost, from the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad, as well as publications, exhibition catalogs, and personal documentation.this website is supervised and managed by Dr Nada SHABOUT she is an Associate Professor of Art History and the Director of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Studies Institute (CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Modern Arab Art: Formation of Arab Aesthetics, University of Florida Press, 2007 and co-editor of New Vision: Arab Art in the 21st Century, Thames & Hudson, 2009. She has curated several exhibitions of Arab and Iraqi art and has written extensively on Iraqi art. Since 2003, she has been working on the recovery, documentation and digitization of modern Iraqi heritage, particularly the collection previously held at the Iraqi Museum of Modern Art.