Angela Larian is an artist in Los Angeles who bases some of her work on the works of the Sufi poet Rumi and Zoroastrianism. Her latest series, “Khoda,” the Persian word for God, is currently being exhibited in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Contact through the Make Agency.

Aimee Froom is curator of Art of the Islamic Worlds at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and a lecturer at Rice University. She is author of Arts of Islamic Lands: The al-Sabah Collection at the MFAH.

Massumeh Farhad is chief curator and curator of Islamic art at Freer Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C.