For over a decade, Mai Eldib has played an instrumental role in providing a platform for promoting Modern and Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art, and is presently the Head of Sale for Sotheby’s bi-annual 20th Century Art / Middle East auction. Mai has pioneered record-breaking sales of a number of Egyptian Modernist artists. Her current projects include initiating an archive that compiles primary documents on the Egyptian art scene from 1910 through to 1980 and contextualising these, together with a collective of fellow female art enthusiasts.