Spring 2025
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November 2023
‘Bid Me Farewell’
Movie poster
Poster for the short documentary film by director Sami Abd Elbaki.
About the project
‘Bid Me Farewell’ (13 min, 2021).tells the story of Umm Rami, a compassionate mourner in the city of Suwayda, Syria, who helps the families of the deceased overcome their grief through her handed down poems about loss.
About the project
‘Bid Me Farewell’ (13 min, 2021).tells the story of Umm Rami, a compassionate mourner in the city of Suwayda, Syria, who helps the families of the deceased overcome their grief through her handed down poems about loss.
October 2024
Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action
Exhibition design
The Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action exhibition, by focusing on the actions initiated by the founding New York chapter from 1987-1993, performatively shows how one might react to a social crisis, reach a broad audience, change the discourse of “business as usual,” and initiate systemic change.
On View: October 5 – December 14, 2024
Curated by Juli Carson and Sasha Ussef
University Art Gallery, Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine
About the Exhibition:
We live in tumultuous times. There are culture wars the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1980s. Looming even larger is a pernicious anti-democratic turn—in both the US and abroad—that’s instilled a general sense of dread whenever elections approach. Unsurprisingly, there’s a strong desire to organize, act, and make positive change. To be the protagonist of an empowering counter-narrative. Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action is a performative installation—comprised of film, graphics, and archival material—that demonstrate what dogged but peaceful civil disobedience might achieve. How, in fact, it might even change the world.
On View: October 5 – December 14, 2024
Curated by Juli Carson and Sasha Ussef
University Art Gallery, Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine
About the Exhibition:
We live in tumultuous times. There are culture wars the likes of which we haven’t seen since the 1980s. Looming even larger is a pernicious anti-democratic turn—in both the US and abroad—that’s instilled a general sense of dread whenever elections approach. Unsurprisingly, there’s a strong desire to organize, act, and make positive change. To be the protagonist of an empowering counter-narrative. Learning from ACT UP: Tactics of Direct Action is a performative installation—comprised of film, graphics, and archival material—that demonstrate what dogged but peaceful civil disobedience might achieve. How, in fact, it might even change the world.
AUGUST 2023
THELOVEHUB x Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest 2024
Creative direction & design
Series of workshops and panels for the 2024 THELOVEHUB x Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest in London, UK.
Illustrations by Lynne Zakhour.
Organised by The Love Tank CIC.
Full events listing:
queerhealth.info/lovehub24
Illustrations by Lynne Zakhour.
Organised by The Love Tank CIC.
Full events listing:
queerhealth.info/lovehub24
