Nourane Ben Azzouna is an associate professor in Islamic Art History and deputy dean of the Faculty of Historical Sciences at the University of Strasbourg, France. Previously, she was an assistant professor at the University of Vienna, Austria (2013-2016), and an assistant curator for the Islamic arts at the Agence France Museums – Louvre Abu Dhabi (2009–2013). She holds a PhD from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France (2009). Her research interests include the codicology and palaeography of Arabic and Persian manuscripts, images and painting in medieval Islam, and transculturality. In the framework of CallFront, her contribution will focus on calligraphy in Arabic script in China. Recent publications include Aux origines du classicisme : calligraphes et bibliophiles au temps des dynasties mongoles (Les Ilkhanides et les Djalayirides, 656-814 H./1258-1411) (Brill, 2018), L’Orient inattendu, du Rhin à l’Indus [Exhibition catalogue: Strasbourg, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire, 18 Sept. 2021 – 16 Jan. 2022], edited with Claude Lorentz and with the collaboration of Léandra Panozzo (Bnu éditions, 2021), and Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie 8, edited with Markus Ritter and with the collaboration of Sabiha Göloğlu (Reichert Verlag, 2022).