SELECTED UNIVERSITY GUEST LECTURES
2022
slade: contemporary art lecture
2021
UCL COURSE DIRECTOR AND LECTURER: ‘CURATING POLITICAL DOCUMENTARIES’ WITH OPEN CITY FILM FESTIVAL
UC SANTA CRUZ: ON ARAB VIDEO
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY: ON IRAQ AND THE URBAN ESSAY FILM
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART (RCA): NOTES ON PLAY
WILLIAMS COLLEGE: SURVEILLANCE NETWORKS: MEDIA, SOFTWARE AND MILITARY TECHNOLOGY IN ARAB ESSAY FILM
2020
DUKE UNIVERSITY: MAPPING CONTEOMPORARY SWANA CINEMA
UC BERKELEY: REPRESENTATION AND ARAB WOMEN
NORTHWESTEN UNIVERSITY: ON ARAB WOMEN’S ESSAY FILM
2019
OXFORD UNIVERSITY: CONTEMPORARY FEMINISMS IN NEW MEDIA
SELECTED TALKS, PANELS AND MASTERCLASSES
2022
finch cafe, london: free crit session for video artists
KUNSTNERNES HUS KINO, OSLO: Q&A ABOUT MY WORK
BI’BAK CINEMA, BERLIN: Q&A ABOUT MY WORK
2021
BAFTA, LONDON: INTRODUCTION TO MEMORY BOX (2021) WITH Joana Hadjithomas AND KHALIL JORIEGE
MOMA PS1, NYC: Q&A WITH JOANA HADJITHOMAS AND KHALIL JOREIGE
cph:dox: curating online industry masterclass
locarno film festival: svod platfrom masterclass
DAZED LIVE, LONDON: collective effort: creating art spaces beyond the institution
MUSEUM OF IMPOSSIBLE FORMS, HELSINKI: DECOLONIAL FILM PROGRAMMING AND ACTIVIST NETWORKS
ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES, NYC: Q&A ON PURPLE SEA (2020) WITH AMEL ALZAKOUT
MOMA, nyc: A NEW WAVE OF ARAB WOMEN’S CINEMA panel discussion
Sheffield doc fest: curating online INDUSTRY masterclass
MAAT Lisbon: CINEMATIC ARCHITECTURES [WITH]IN ARAB GEOGRAPHIES
invisible women archives, london: archive politics and conscious curation
MIZNA ARAB FESTIVAL: EXILE AND LUNAR COLONISATION PANEL HOST
liverpool arab arts festival, liverpool: creating a successful brand
FILM FUTURA, nyc: The politics of VIRTUAL CINEMA
BEWEEN WOMEN FILMMAKER’S CARAVAN, cairo: ARAB WOMEN’S CINEMA MASTERCLASS
dardishi, glasgow: programming arab women’s cinema masterclass
2020
barbican, london: q&a on i still hide to smoke (2016)
free the work, la: q&a with haifaa al-mansour
sharjah art foundation, sharjah: q&a with shahad ameen
cheap cuts film festival: documentary distribution panel
moth club, london: climate migration and women’s community building in mena
2019
first crossings festival, slovenia: mena women & the essay film
royal photographic society: 100 heroines exhibition