Saeb Eigner is an Arabist with a deep knowledge of the Middle East and a committed advocate of the arts. For several decades he has been an avid collector of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, and much of his collection is on long-term loan to the London Business School (of which he has been a governor for many years). Saeb Eigner was a senior adviser on the British Museum’s exhibition Word into Art: Artists of the Middle East (2006; touring internationally from 2008, with Saeb acting as co-curator), and is author of Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran (foreword by Zaha Hadid; Merrell, 2010).

'Ambitious ... Eigner expertly analyses key artistic movements from the Maghreb, including the Casablanca School, focusing also on Egypt’s vibrant art scene in the early 20th century, Sudan’s Khartoum School and the thriving art scenes in Damascus and Beirut until the onset of the 1975 civil war' - A Book of the Year, Art Newspaper

Saeb Eigner is an Arabist with a deep knowledge of the Middle East and a committed advocate of the arts. For several decades he has been an avid collector of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, and much of his collection is on long-term loan to the London Business School (of which he has been a governor for many years). Saeb Eigner was a senior adviser on the British Museum’s exhibition Word into Art: Artists of the Middle East (2006; touring internationally from 2008, with Saeb acting as co-curator), and is author of Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran (foreword by Zaha Hadid; Merrell, 2010).

'Ambitious ... Eigner expertly analyses key artistic movements from the Maghreb, including the Casablanca School, focusing also on Egypt’s vibrant art scene in the early 20th century, Sudan’s Khartoum School and the thriving art scenes in Damascus and Beirut until the onset of the 1975 civil war' - A Book of the Year, Art Newspaper

Saeb Eigner is an Arabist with a deep knowledge of the Middle East and a committed advocate of the arts. For several decades he has been an avid collector of modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, and much of his collection is on long-term loan to the London Business School (of which he has been a governor for many years). Saeb Eigner was a senior adviser on the British Museum’s exhibition Word into Art: Artists of the Middle East (2006; touring internationally from 2008, with Saeb acting as co-curator), and is author of Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World and Iran (foreword by Zaha Hadid; Merrell, 2010).

'Ambitious ... Eigner expertly analyses key artistic movements from the Maghreb, including the Casablanca School, focusing also on Egypt’s vibrant art scene in the early 20th century, Sudan’s Khartoum School and the thriving art scenes in Damascus and Beirut until the onset of the 1975 civil war' - A Book of the Year, Art Newspaper