I’m an interdisciplinary artist, designer, curator, and daughter of Historic Palestine. Having lived most of my life in the UAE before moving to North America in 2012, my practice has been shaped by migration and statelessness.

Working across disciplines, my practice engages social and political questions through critical inquiry that takes visual and tactile form. My work is deeply intimate, informed by my parents’ experiences as survivors of the Nakba and by the ongoing erasure of Palestine. Raised stateless, I became the first in my family to obtain citizenship, an experience that continues to shape my exploration of belonging, memory, displacement, and identity.

I hold a BSc in Visual Communications from American University of Sharjah and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media and Design from OCAD University. Based in Chicago, where my practice continues to weave the threads between homeland and exile, and the enduring longing for liberation and the right to return.

Photo by Nesreen

Working on Concrete Maps project