Virginia Danielson is an Associate of the Harvard Music Department and Visiting Scholar at NYU Abu Dhabi. Previously, she served as the Director of Libraries at NYUAD and as Richard F. French Librarian of the Loeb Music Library at Harvard University and the Curator of the University’s Archive of World Music; she taught occasionally in Harvard’s Music Department. An ethnomusicologist by training, Danielson is the author of the award-winning monograph “The Voice of Egypt:” Umm Kulthum, Arabic Song and Egyptian Society in the 20^th Century and co-editor of The Middle East, volume 6 of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Danielson is also a co-editor of the book, Music in Arabia (Indiana University Press, 2021).