© خاصة Jasmina El Bouamraoui 

Jasmina El Bouamraoui works as the German-Moroccanillustrator EL BOUM, based in Berlin. Explorations of identity, memory, and the politics of visibility shape her visual language. Her projects address historical and contemporary forms of erasure, particularly where gendered assumptions influence craft, labor, and the stories told about them. She creates visual archives that counter omission, reframe overlooked perspectives, and open spaces for imagining future narratives. Her multidisciplinary practice spans illustration and painting as well as large-scale works on wood, where materiality, surface, and craft processes plays central role.

© Private Laure Ibrahim

Laure Ibrahim is a Lebanese artist based in Beirut. She graduated the Lebanese academy of fine arts (ALBA) where she specialized in Illustration and comics.
In 2022, She co-created Mazza Collective, a publishing organization that aims to promote visual storytelling in Lebanon. In 2024, she published her first graphic novel “Qui a tué Asmahan ?” with writer Nadia Hathroubi Safsaf and publisher Alifbata in Marseille, France.
Her drawings for Qui a tué Asmahan ? were exhibited in the 9th edition of CairoComix in Cairo. She is currently working on her second book which she will develop during the Halaqat residency for graphic novels in the Goethe Institute Cairo, Egypt.
Laure's work seeks resonance through its focus on community, rooted in the landscape of her upbringing and the city that shaped her.

© Private Gracia Koussa

Gracia Koussa is a multidisciplinary artist, with special focus on linocut printing.
Graduated from the Lebanese academy of fine arts (ALBA) with a master’s degree in illustration and comics in 2022.
She co-founded the collective Mizza in 2021, which focuses on the publication of emerging artists in the field of visual narration in the region.
Her work explores themes like death, ancestry, identity and community. Working with disciplines like printing, illustration, comics, fiber art, photography, and creative writing, she creates a poetic rendition filled with symbolism of her experience as an Arab woman.
 

© Private Nouran El Qadi

Nourhan, also known asNourleq, is a DJ, selector, and music curator whose practice bridges Egyptian and African heritage with contemporary sonic experimentation. Her sets draw on folklore, archival sound, and traditional genres such aszar, alongside ambient, electronic, and jazz-influenced textures, exploring cultural memory, intergenerational dialogue, and collective healing.
Known for her thoughtful, context-driven approach, Nourleq performs across cultural, outdoor, and club settings, adapting her sound whileremainingrooted in storytelling and sonic research. Her recent work includes SAT7 Vol.1, a live collaboration with trombonist Zekkereya El-Magharbel, the folklore group Abu ElGhait, andOnsy, as well as curated listening sessions based on the Egyptian Folklore Music Archive.

© Private Farah Hijazi

Farahis a multidisciplinary artist and researcher based in Amsterdam, with roots in Palestine and Jordan. Her practice moves between personal reflection and political inquiry, exploring how emotions, relationships, and systems of power shape human experience. Working intuitively and open-endedly, her process begins with questions or feelings that unfold through making, embracing play, curiosity, and the unexpected.
Her current research focuses on surveillance, resistance, and belonging within systemic structures, approaching technologies of control as tools for reflection and connection. In recent years, she has led art workshops in asylum centers in the Netherlands, experiences that inform her ongoing project beinwbein (“in-between”), a participatory installation and performance exploring surveillance, resistance, and care.

© Private Majida Lamrabte

A singer, producer, and songwriter of Afro-Italian heritage with Moroccan roots, born and raised in working-class neighborhoods in Genoa. Music has been her refuge and primary form of expression from an early age. She later moved to the Netherlands to invest fully in her artistic journey and pursue a meaningful music career.
Her work explores social and political themes, drawing on personal and community experiences. Over the past two years, she has released tracks online, produced part of her music independently, and collaborated with artists from the Netherlands, Morocco, and Italy. She has performed in cities including Amsterdam, Reggio Emilia, Pisa, Genoa, and Milan, and recently advanced to the semifinals of the Italian national contest Palchibelli.

Randa Mirza

Randa Mirza (Beirut, 1978) is a visual artist who lives and works in Marseille and Beirut. Her practice encompasses photography, video and live AV performances.  Her work occupies the space between documentary, artistic writing and personal expression, providing space for reflection, reparation and resistance in the face of violence. She often questions hegemonic systems of thought and representations from a feminist and decolonial perspective. Mirza’s work received several awards, including the Photo Folio review prize at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2024, the Eyes wide Open first book prize, andLotfi the No Limit Award at the Rencontres d'Arles in 2006.

Lotfi Ghariani

Lotfi Ghariani (b. Sfax, Tunisia; lives in Tunis) is a photographer and visual artist whose work explores Black identity, memory and social marginalization in North Africa. Working across photography, video, sound, installation and archival materials, he challenges dominant narratives and recovers hidden histories. His long-term project Black Tunisians: The Unseen Citizens was a finalist in the Magnum Foundation’s Counter Histories (2022). Ghariani has exhibited both locally and internationally, including at the Bamako Encounters – Biennale of African Photography (2011, Mali), the Mediterranean Art Biennale of Tunis (2010, Tunis) and Artists in the City at the Atelier of Alexandria (2008, Egypt). In 2024, he expanded his research on race, migration and belonging through a residency in Germany supported by the EU.

Aya Chriki

Aya Chriki (1995, Gabès, Tunisia) is a visual artist and PhD candidate in Art History and Fine Arts. Through photography, video art, writing, and research, she explores exile, gender, displacement, and identity. She won the Photography Prize at Gabès Cinéma Fen (2022) and was recognized in the ICTJ’s Outre-mer writing competition (2024). In 2025, she was selected for the Mediterranean project Tae’thir – Resisting Resignation and became a finalist for Arab Artists Now. With KalamAflam, she led the Cairo workshop From the Image, We Build Walls, a Roof, and Windows, gathering migrant and exiled women artists around the notion of home. Since 2018, she has exhibited in Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Egypt, the UAE, and beyond.
Ali Asfour is a Palestinian analog film photographer and DJ whose work explores displacement, identity, and resistance through cinematic imagery and sound. His exhibitions have been shown internationally, including in New York and New Zealand, and his photography has appeared in publications such as GQ Middle East, Dazed Middle East, and The New Arab. He also hosts SADAA: Echoes of the MENA on Mutant Radio, spotlighting the region’s rich musical heritage.

Ali Asfour Ali Asfour

Ali Asfour is a Palestinian analog film photographer and DJ whose work explores displacement, identity, and resistance through cinematic imagery and sound. His exhibitions have been shown internationally, including in New York and New Zealand, and his photography has appeared in publications such as GQ Middle East, Dazed Middle East, and The New Arab. He also hosts SADAA: Echoes of the MENA on Mutant Radio, spotlighting the region’s rich musical heritage.

© Private Hashem Hashem

Hashem Hashem (1988) is Lebanese theatre maker, poet, writer and performer based in Beirut, with a particular interest in exploring themes of sexuality, identity and affect through multi-disciplinary forms of language and bodily expression. He holds an MA in Gender Studies from SOAS, University of London. His theatre productions include "The Last Distance" (2018), "I am the Same, Yet so Different" (2021), "The Sun Thief" (2024), "40 Rocks from Dahieh" and "This Love is Mine" (2025). His work has been featured in local theatres and festivals (Zoukak, Sursock Museum, Ashkal Alwan, Station Beirut and Hammana Artist House), and abroad in Mexico City, Belfast, Paris, Brussels, Geneva, and Kathmandu. Hashem is also a creative writing trainer and founder of @hashems_apple, an Instagram page that specializes in writing techniques. 

© Private Mehdi Djouad

Mehdi Djouad is an Algerian-French artist and astrologer working across performance, dance, and mysticism. Trained in contemporary theater, they transform astrology into a choreographic language, where movement becomes a reenactment of celestial bodies and ritual a form of embodied writing.
Their practice explores the body as an astral map, drawing on Islamic medieval astrology and an alternativeperspective to reconnect movement, spirituality, and collective memory. Through performance, Mehdi creates spaces where ancestral knowledge, postcolonial histories, and healing intersect.
Blending text, movement, and star-reading, their work invites us to see the stars not as fate, but as rhythm—reimagining the relationship between body, cosmos, and becoming.

© Privat Noha Ramadan

Noha Ramadan is an Egyptian-Australian choreographer, dancer, and performer based in Amsterdam. Their work draws on improvisation, usinga cinematic and poetic language to explore transformation, perception, and the shifting relationship between body and image.
After studying music and political economy in Sydney, Noha moved to Amsterdam, graduating from SNDO (2009) and DAS Choreography (2017). In 2017, they co-founded Jakoozi, an artist-run space supporting collaborative practices.
Their work has been presented internationally, and they are part of Mophradat’s 2023–2025 commissioning program and Life Long Burning Creative Crossroads (2025/26). Their recent project, After Myth, premiered at Alkantara Festival (2025).

© Private Ziad Wallace

Ziad Salem “Wallace” is a hip-hop and contemporary dancer, performer, and emerging choreographer from Alexandria, Egypt. Since beginning his journey in 2013 with Space Crew Dancers, he has developed a practice that blends the raw energy of street dance with the sensitivity of contemporary forms.
Influenced by his background in boxing and the movement of Muhammad Ali, he approaches the body as a vessel for rhythm, emotion, and expression.
Ziad has collaborated with numerous international artists across performances, residencies, and festivals in Egypt and Europe. As a choreographer, he co-created Trio Dance Performance(2021) and presented his first solo work,Plan (B)-X(2024).

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Rana Feghali

Rana Feghali (b. 1984, Beirut) is an artist based in Italy whose practice reinterprets textile traditions linked to domestic and feminized labor. Working with felt-making and hand-weaving, she transforms repetitive gestures into slow, meditative processes using natural fibers and recycled materials.
She constructs her own looms, hand-dyes textiles with plants collected in Lebanon, and reworks found fabrics to preserve the stories and labor of the women who created them. Her work explores memory, identity, and social inequalities through textile practices.
Rana is currently researching the history of Lebanon’s silk industry and its impact on gender roles and women’s labor. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Triennale di Milano and exhibitions across Beirut, Paris, Milan, and Vienna.

© Private Saddie Choua

Saddie Choua is an artist whose work questions identity, otherness, and the power structures that shape how we see ourselves and others. Through meta-documentary, collage, and autobiographical elements, she examines racism, gender discrimination, and class, while challenging dominant visual and cultural narratives.
Her practice explores how images of “the other” are produced and consumed, and how they influence self-image and historical consciousness. By reworking popular formats, she seeks to disrupt conventional storytelling and sharpen critical perspectives.
Saddie Choua lives and works between Brussels, Ostend, and Lychnaftia. She is a doctoral researcher and lecturer at RITCS Brussels and Sint Lucas Antwerp, a member of the artist collective ROBIN, and a laureate of the Belgian Art Prize 2020.

© Private Walaa Tarakji

An independent Syrian artist. She studied Stage Design at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Damascus, where she created scenographic designs for several performances presented in Arab festivals, including Carthage and the Arab Theatre Festival. 
Her current artistic practice focuses on illustration as a visual and research-based medium to explore women’s experiences within the contexts of migration and displacement, and the social and psychological dimensions that arise from these journeys.                                                    
Her work seeks to reinterpret individual and collective memory through artistic works that evoke the tension between loss and belonging, and the search for identity in a shifting landscape. 
Her work has been exhibited in several art exhibitions in Turkey (Istanbul and Ankara), Australia, and Qatar.

 

© Private Ahd Saber

Ahd Saber, 22, is a music educator, pianist, and content creator, graduated in 2025 from the Faculty of Music Education. She has participated in multiple projects connected to the European Union, including Media Week and storyLab CONNECT gender 16 and has experience designing interactive workshops for children and women from diverse social backgrounds. Passionate about music as a tool for art and music therapy, cultural exchange, and community care, Ahd creates experiences that foster emotional expression, personal growth, and inclusive spaces for participation.

© Private Sarah Salah

Sarah is a clinical psychologist working with individual and group psychotherapy, grounded in approaches such as Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Alongside her clinical work, she engages with writing and artistic practices as tools for reflection and meaning-making.
In recent years, her work has focused on questions of care, rest, and slowness within the pressures of accelerated living. She explores how these concepts are shaped by social structures and gendered expectations.
Through her engagement with art and reflection, Sarah creates space to examine care as a complex, lived practice—holding tension, tenderness, and resistance.

© Private Samar Hussein

Egyptian artist Samar Hussein began her musical journey many years ago, performing with several music ensembles through which she trained, developed her skills, and was deeply influenced by traditional heritage songs, memorizing a wide repertoire of them.
She presents Egyptian heritage and folk music, with a special focus on women’s popular songs that open doors to a world of nostalgia, joy, pain, and a rich blend of deep emotions. She adds her own unique touch, blending these songs with contemporary musical elements to present them in her own distinctive style.
Samar also researched rare heritage songs and worked on rearranging them and presenting them to the audience in a new form.
She has also participated in numerous musical and theatrical performances both inside Egypt and abroad.

© Private Thalia Bassim

Thalia Bassim is a Lebanese visual artist, photographer, and storyteller based between New York and Beirut. Her practice explores memory, inheritance, and the emotional landscapes of place, often working with photography as a means of tracing personal and collective histories. Moving between documentation and constructed narrative, she returns to familiar sites, gestures, and archives to examine how time reshapes meaning and identity. Bassim’s work is rooted in Lebanon, where family history, landscape, and repetition form an ongoing dialogue between past and present. She also incorporates AI image-making as part of her broader visual practice, expanding how images can be constructed, altered, and reinterpreted. Through this combination of processes, she reflects on what is preserved, what is transformed, and what resists disappearance.
Alongside her artistic practice, she works in media, communications, and production, bringing a multidisciplinary approach to storytelling across platforms. Her work is driven by a commitment to creating images that hold memory, tension, and continuity in fragile balance.

© Private Mohamed Abdelkarim

Mohamed Abdelkarim is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, fi lm, sound, and writing. His practice departs from performance scripts and scores, approached as fables and epistemic witnesses to unfolding processes. His ongoing umbrella project, Dramaturgy of Defeat, inhabits the incomprehension left by history and uncertain futures, engaging the remnants of defeat through ritualized commemoration, repetition, and recitation. He proposes forms of Gnostic contemplation in moments of crisis that exceed conventional inquiry, performing within temporal urgency. His performances have been included in Guild Master of Cabaret Voltaire, Manifesta 11, Zurich, 2016, Performative 04, at MAXXI L'Aquila, 2024, Interazioni Festival, Rome, Italy, 2022/2025.

© Private Younès Ben Slimane

Younès Ben Slimane is a visual artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice spans architecture, film, and installation. He studied architecture at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism in Tunis and completed postgraduate studies at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains (France).His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Mucem (Marseille), Dakar Biennale (Senegal), the Zaha Hadid Foundation (London), and Beirut Art Center, among others. His films have been screened at festivals such as Locarno, BlackStar, CPH:DOX, Curtas Vila do Conde, DokuFest, EXiS Seoul, and Prismatic Ground (New York).
He has participated in residencies at Villa Medici (Rome), Fondation Thalie (Brussels), and Fondation Fiminco (Romainville).

© Private Alia Tageldin

Alia Tag, mother of Malika (12y) is a dance therapist, movement artist and singer-songwriter based in Cairo, Egypt and working at the intersection of decolonized embodiment, artistic research, and socially engaged practice. Rooted in intensive dance therapy training, her current work explores the body and voice as tools of resistance, relational knowledge and collective healing. Inspired by her journey through motherhood, she navigates themes of body image and collective care as intimate and political terrains. She approaches performance as a space to find meaning and hope in times of despair.

© Private Imen Zarrouk

Imen Zarrouk is a Tunisian artist-writer whose practice explores motherhood, memory, and language. Her work examines the structural challenges of sustaining artistic practice alongside care, drawing from her lived experience as a mother of two.
Her current project, Abécédaire, is a multilingual artist’s book (Arabic, French, English) that investigates care labor, colonial language politics, and maternal experience through autobiography, poetry, and critical reflection.
With a background in Tunisia’s cultural sector—including the TASAWAR Curatorial Program at Goethe-Institut Tunis and work with Kamel Lazaar Foundation—her practice bridges artistic, curatorial, and critical writing. She currently develops her work as a resident at Halaqat in Marrakech.

© Private Anguezomo Nzé Mba

Anguezomo Nzé Mba Bikoro (Gabon) is a visual artist, curator, writer, and holistic practitioner whose work spans art, activism, education, and therapy. Rooted in their family heritage in Woleu-Ntem, their practice engages decolonial histories, Black queer feminist thought, and ancestral healing.
Through somatic practices, botanic knowledge, and ritual-based formats, they explore intergenerational trauma, embodied archives, and community healing, drawing on Bakongo cosmology, Obeah, Capoeira, and Orixa traditions. Their work creates tools for self-autonomy, mental health, and collective transformation.
Mba Bikoro has exhibited internationally, including at the Dak’Art Biennale and the Venice Biennale, and is the Artistic & Curatorial Director of Nyabinghi Lab. Alongside their artistic practice, they lecture, write, and develop decolonial feminist programs across institutions and independent platforms.

© Private Noémie Hakim-Serfaty

Noémie Hakim-Serfaty is a French director and editor with Moroccan and Syrian-Lebanese roots. Her work centers on women, matrilineal memory, and questions of exile and cultural transmission, moving between documentary and more poetic, hybrid forms. 
Her debut documentary, Des Agrégations, an investigation into the sexist and colonial biases of the French education system, toured schools and universities across France and sparked a nationwide conversation on pedagogical reform. In the US, she spent a decade working at the intersection of filmmaking, pedagogy, and curation, collaborating extensively with social justice organizations and cultural institutions. She produced and edited short-form documentaries for organizations such as The Story of Stuff Project and curated film programs with the Jewish Film Institute and the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.  
She holds a Master's in Philosophy from La Sorbonne and an MSc in Management of Arts and Culture from HEC Paris. She is currently based in Paris, where she is developing her own films. 

© Private Salma Said

Salma Said (Cairo/Berlin) is an artist and activist working across performance, media art, and research. With a background in literature and film, she holds an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Leipzig University, focusing on gender and activism in Egypt.
She co-founded Mosireen in 2011, a media collective documenting the Egyptian revolution, which later produced the 858 Archive of Resistance. Her practice moves between film, theater, and collaborative artistic research, often at the intersection of art and activism.
Since 2019, she has worked closely with Miriam Coretta Schulte, co-creating performance and research projects that engage audiences directly and explore themes such as asylum, justice, and participation.
Her current work also investigates motherhood as a site of resistance, expanding her interest in care, feminist theory, and embodied activism.

© Private Saena Delacroix

Saena Delacroix-Sadighiyan is an Iranian and French calligrapher, sociologist and mother of two beautiful souls.  Based inParis, with projects across both shores of the Mediterranean, she explores themes of identity, exile, attachment, peace, and hybridity through both academic research and artistic creation. 
She holds the Chair of Arabic-Persian Calligraphy at the Institut des Cultures d’Islam in Paris.  Her live calligraphic performances integrate radical poetry and the use of the human body as a calligraphic tool, transforming each gesture into an act of resistance and hope.
Her first graphic novel : (une nuit) was awarded by the International Organization of La Francophonie. 
 

© Private Amira lamti

Amira Lamti is a Tunisian visual artist born in 1996 in Sousse, where she lives and works.
She holds a degree in photography and a master's in visual arts research from the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Sousse. From the very beginning, she uses photography and videography as tools to fragment her daily life, capturing moments, gestures, and rituals. Amira explores the human connection with both natural and social environments. Her work questions notions such as heritage and transmission.
She creates her own narratives, juxtaposing still and moving images. Her homeland deeply influences her productions, and her diverse and contemporary inspirations transcend cultural boundaries.
Her works have been exhibited at the Yosr Ben Ammar Gallery, Elbirou Art Gallery, the French Institute of Tunis, and the National Library of Tunisia, as well as at the Fort Pienc Civic Center (Spain). She participated in the JAOU Festival (Tunisia) in 2024 and is a resident at Villa Salambo (Tunisia) in 2025, and at Hangar Barcelona (Spain) in 2023. image festival of amman et l’abbaye des jumieges france 2025.

© Private Kaoutar Enouari

Kaoutar Enouari, originally from Taroudant, a city in southern Morocco, is a graduate of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tétouan, where she is currently pursuing a Master's degree. Her artistic practice currently revolves around wool, a material she explores through its various stages of transformation, from raw to crafted. By reappropriating traditional artisanal techniques such as felting, crochet, knitting, and weaving, she seeks to reinvest them within a contemporary approach, where these skills become tools for research, experimentation, and artistic expression.

© Private Sahar El Echi

Sahar El Echi (1992) is a Tunis-based visual artist and filmmaker. A graduate of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts of Tunis (ISBAT), she works across photography, moving images, text, and sound. 
Her research-based practice engages with visual forms and poetic approaches to question the construction of memory, identity, and belonging. Through video, photography, sound and text, she examines the shifting relationships between individuals and the territories they traverse and inhabit. 
She has directed several video essays and independent films, including Mutation, Entre-deux, Correspondances, and Manwella, with works presented in national and international festivals and art platforms. 
A laureate of the Prince Claus Seed Award (2024), she has also taken part in prestigious training and residency programs, notably the Documentary Film Methods program at the Danish Film School (2019) and the Fiminco Foundation residency in France. 
Her latest film, On the Edge, won the Bronze Tanit at the Carthage Film Festival and was officially selected for the Red Sea Film Festival and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.