Reynier Valdés

He is a Master in Asian and African Studies, with a specialty in the Middle East from The College of Mexico and a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from the University of Havana. He was a professor at the master's level at the Mexican Art Center from February 2015 to January 2016, teaching Contemporary Art in Asia and Art of Islam classes. He is currently a professor of the Bachelor of History at the Anahuac North University, where he has taught courses on the history of Islam and subjects on art and history. Likewise, he works as a teacher at Casa Lamm and has offered courses at the Mexican Art Center and the University of Communication. He was linked as a full-time teacher for three years at the San Gerónimo de La Habana University College. He has published several articles, among which are: The conception of the ruler in ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian culture, during the third millennium and Xavier Mascaró, Talisman. Also, he wrote the book entitled Cávilas. Since January 2015, he has been part of the project "Neo-Arab architectural heritage of Latin America and the Caribbean: challenges for its conservation and management" and is Assistant Director of Virtual Education in Online Education Casa Lamm. His lines of research revolve around problems such as orientalist visions, intertextuality and resistance phenomena, expressed in the artistic productions of the so-called "peripheral" spaces. In this sense, he is interested in contemporary visual arts, as well as the cultural and religious expressions of the Middle East and Asia.