CV
WORK EXPERIENCE:
December 2024–Current / Managing Producer Film Programming, Mizna
June–October 2024 /Arab Film Fest Coordinator, Mizna/ Minneapolis
2022–June 2024 /Hotline Coordinator, Revolutionary Emergency Partners/ Minneapolis
2021–June 2024 /Operations Manager, Public Functionary/ Minneapolis
2023-2024 / RAWIfest Coordinator, Open Book / Minneapolis
Oct 2019–June 2021 /Program Director, Mizna/ St. Paul
May 2018–Oct 2019 /Office + Outreach Manager, Mizna/ St. Paul
May 2018–Nov 2019 /Office + Outreach Manager, Sheridan Neighborhood Org/ Mpls
May 2019–Aug 2020 /Board Secretary, Dear Gaza/ Mpls
2015–2018 /Marketing Coordinator, Hennepin Theatre Trust/ Mpls
2014–2015 /Program Director, Radio K (KUOM)/ Mpls
2011-2014 / Radio DJ + various roles, Radio K / Mpls
2014 /Head Coordinator, FMLY FEST/ Heart of the Beast Theater, Mpls
2014 /Intern, Secret Stash Records/ Mpls
SHOWS:
2024/ Together: group show/ Hair + Nails, MN
2024/ You Say You Love Me and I Commit To Friction/ Public Functionary, MN
2023 /In Other Miles/ Public Functionary, MN
2023 /الفكرة ذكرى /A thought is a memory/ Cue Art, New York, NY
2022 /Abolitionist Box/ Smallart Gallery, Rochester MN
2022 /Smoke + Ground/ Public Functionary, MN
2022 /Weaving Fragments/ Form + Content, MN
2021 /Warmth/ Stay Home Gallery, Nashville, TN
2021 /nourish Group Show/ Public Functionary, Mpls
2021 /To Oakland with Love/ LOOM Gallery organized by Pro Arts Oakland
2021 /Studio 400 Group Show/ Homewood Studios, Mpls
2021 /CO Exhibition’s Tropical Sour Group Show/ Modist Brewing, Mpls
2020 [POSTPONED] /Reenactment of Lygia Clark’s Baba Antropofagia/ Pancake House, Mpls
2020 /Slow Looking Session: King Tut’s 3-part camping bed/ Pancake House
2020 /Let There Be Spaces in Your Togetherness/ Traveling show - SooVAC, New York Mills, St. Cloud State University
2019 /Hieronymus Bosch Dollmaking Activity/ Pancake House, Mpls
2018 /Intimacy + Sensory Project with Aegor Ray/ The Future, Mpls 2017 /Performance at Rethinking Public Spaces, a project of Lamia Abukhadra+Leila Awadallah/ Prospect Park Community Garden, Mpls
2016 /’Soft’ with Sophie Durbin, Becca White/ Coming Soon Gallery, Mpls
2016 /Women Queer, Trans & Femme Group Show/ Seward Cafe, Mpls
2016 /Arabs at the Beach/ Licorice Beach, Mpls
2015 /ATM(2)/ Cedar-Riverside, Mpls
2015 /BA+BFA Exhibition/ Regis Center for the Arts, Mpls
2015 /Feminist as Fuck Group Show/ St Paul
2012 /Upstairs Neighbor Collective Inaugural Show/ St Paul
RESIDENCIES / GRANTS:
2024 - MSAB Creative Individuals Grant Recipient
2022-2024 /Community Studios Resident Artist/ Public Functionary, MN
2022 /Emerging Artist Residency/ Franconia Sculpture Garden, MN
2022 /Arts Colony Residency/ Grand Marais, MN
2020-2021 /Studio Resident / PF Studio 400, MN
2020 [POSTPONED] /Artist in Residence/ Habibi House, Detroit, MI
WRITING/ARTICLES/PRESS:
2023/Carrier Bag of Recovery by Aegor Ray (collages)/ MN Artists
2023/The Time Is Now: Speculative Memory, Reclaimed Futures by Sarah Aziza
2023/New York exhibition sees Arab-American artists explore the effects of displacement on memory/ Arab News
2022/Timberwolves: A Love Letter to the MN Arts Scene
2022/What I’m Doing When I’m Not Writing by Aegor Ray (collages)/ MN Artists
2022/Abdellatif ElNashar Family History Project
2021/Queer Filth: A Roundtable/ MN Artists
2021/Mizna: Queer + Trans Voices/ Queer Arabs Podcast
EDUCATION:
2015 /Bachelor of the Arts/University of Minnesota, Twin Cities