Past Projects
1st November 2021–October 2022, Curator-in-Residence, Doha Firestation Gallery, Qatar Museums
Curator-in-residence from November 2021 to January 2022. Audience engagements as a product of residency included moderating a panel on multidiscilipnary practices and cultural production for the Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech exhibition in March 2022, and conceiving a workshop series on collective memory, field recording and sound art, ‘I lick the sugar off the walls of my memory: synthesizing Doha’s sonic landscape’, conducted over four sessions in October 2022.
15th October 2017–October 2021, Associate Curator, The Media Majlis at Northwestern University Qatar
Curator of The World is Watching Musalsalat (2023). Exhibition identity, art direction and publication design by Studio Safar. Animation by Cognitive. Publication by Akkadia Press.
Curator of From Visionaries to Vloggers: media revolutions in the Middle East (2020). Exhibition design by studio Morcos Key. Animation by Cognitive. Publication by Akkadia Press.
Conceived and co-led workshops with Leila Abdelrazzaq on poster making (October 2019), Deconstructing Truth zinemaking workshop with OOMK.
Moderator of public programme A Call to Action, February 2020. Guest performers: Dima Matta (Lebanon), Sabrina Mahfouz (United Kingdom), Ghada Alatrash (Canada).
Conceived programme Politics of Listening, March 2021 moderated by Christoph Cox (Hampshire College), with artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Turner Prize winner 2019) and poet Arash Saedinia.
Conceived programme Covering Dissent, March 2021 moderated by René de Guzman of Oakland Museum of California (Curator of All Power to All People and Hip Hop & Wisdom), with Suhad Babaa of Just Vision, Catherine Morris of Brooklyn Museum (Curator of Elizabeth A.Sackler Center of Feminist Art) and journalist Ramzy Baroud.
March–October 2020, ‘More Real/Better Than I Imagined (soundscape/video installation)’ included by invitation in Interesting Times in Venice exhibition at the Atrium, London Metropolitan University
January 23–13 March 2020, ‘Remembered/Imagined (video installation)’ included by invitation in Charles Williams, Some New World exhibition at Daphne Oram gallery, Canterbury Christ Church College
26th February 2020, ‘Reels of Revolt’ panel at The Mosaic Rooms, Cromwell Road, London
Participant in panel on art, media in the context of the Sudanese uprising. The conversation explored the role of women and art within the context of 2019 uprisings.
7 November–9 November 2019, ‘Museums in Transition—Community Engagement and Cultural Investment in Doha’ at the Twelfth International Conference on The Inclusive Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentia
Presented a paper on the transitioning social role of museums in a constantly evolving and increasingly globalized cultural landscape and how this discourse is situated in the respective social, economic and political context of Doha, Qatar.
August-–September 2019, Venice Biennale Steward Research fellowship, British Council, London
Recipient of a competitive fellowship to complete onsite research at the 2019 Venice Biennale, on behalf of British Council. Blog on ‘Cultural Imagination and Cultural Memory’ found here.
Represented British Council at ‘Interesting Times in Venice’ talk on 26 November 2020. Guest speakers: Emma Dexter, Director of Visual Arts, British Council; Zoe Whitely, Director, Chisenhale gallery; Gian Carlo Rossi, Head of Art, London Metropolitan University.
June 2019–January 2020, Curatorial Consultant, Liwan Design Lab, Qatar Museums (freelance/project-based)
• Conducted an Oral History project based on the site of Liwan, the site of Msheireb Arts Centre and the first girl’s school in Doha. The objective of the research project was a curatorial narrative, a curatorial plan for the objects and oral history interviews, carried out by project interns.
•. The project entailed consulting the archive of the school library, working with interns to compile written and oral data to support a curatorial narrative. There is a permanent publication to archive this curatorial narrative and the oral history project, currently in distribution.
November 2018, CiMAM annual conference, ‘The Museum in Transition, Stockholm, Sweden (2018 Getty award grantee)
Recipient of a 2018 Travel Grant from Getty Foundation, to benefit museum professionals from emerging market and developing economies. Conference explored global realities, challenges for modern and contemporary art museums, the future intelligence of museums and the ethics of a museum in a mixed economy.
May 2018, UCL Symposium on Community Archives: Preserving Public History and Memory in the Middle East
10th June 2018–12th December 2019, co-curator, Locale Sudan exhibition ‘This Will Have Been: Archives of Past, Present and Future’
15th May 2016–15th April 2017, Curator/ Oral Historian, Mawane
15th September 2015– 4th January 2017, Curator/Arts Manager of Al Riwaq Art Space, Manama, Bahrain
The Nest 2016
The Nest 2015
19 January–6th June 2015 Curatorial Assistant/ Gallery Associate (part-time), Ben Uri Art Gallery and Museum: Art, Identity, Migration
• Collated research detailed material for curators, in preparation for centenary exhibition at Somerset House.
• Credited as a Picture Researcher on all exhibition publications produced for ‘100 Years of Ben Uri ‘and ‘No Set Rules’
June 2014, Columbia University Centre for Oral History Research 2014 Summer Institute, New York, New York, United States (Fellowship)
January 2014- June 2014 ‘Staying Power: The Black-British Experience 1950-1990’ In partnership with the V&A Museum and Black Cultural Archives
Interviewed photographers and subjects, based on the work of artists chosen by the V&A for their significance for capturing Black British Heritage. Featured artists include Yinka Shonbibare, Al Vandenberg, Dennis Morris, Normski, Gavin Watson.