Curator Sara Raza outlines her academic focus on post-Soviet orientalism, and discusses the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative as a framework for tracing the overlap of peoples and ideas. She talks about her previous curatorial projects, which include Migrasophia and The Beginning of Thinking is Geometric, both at the Maraya Art Centre, and Rhizoma at the 2013 Venice Biennale, and ponders how ancient Islamic discoveries related to mathematics and astronomy still resonate.