upcoming

Chapters and chapters! (hopefully)

current

>since late September 2009
PhD candidate in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the London Consortium, UK. Working title: 'Scientific Playthings'.

past

>July 2011
Design of the Herbarium book, an anthology of poetry and songs on medicinal plants and herbs edited by James Wilkes. Poems at http://www.physicgarden.org.uk/2001-2/

>May 2011
Assisting Aura Satz (with Katherine Hunt) in the research and filming of Oramics: Atlantis Anew, a homage to pioneering British electronic music composer, Daphne Oram and her Oramics Machine. Watch here: http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/7789/

>April 2011
'How To Think about Things' for the Thread radio show on Resonance FM
Guests: Steve Connor, Christophe Pinney and Aura Satz.
You can listen to a podcast at www.thethreadradio.org

>March 2011
Women's History Month at Green Lens gallery, London. Group show curated by Jonida Gashi and Roger Orwell.

>January-March 2011
Took the 'Teaching Arts in British Higher Education' course at BBK

>December 2010
Centro/Periferia prizewinners' exhibition by the FederCultura in Rome, Italy
(People's prize)

>December 2010
Paratissima in Torino, Italy - Lebanese Pavilion at Artintown

>May 2010
My Umi Said... New Work from Lebanon - Group show at Kelio Projects, Manhattan Art Space, New York.

>11th February 2010
Wrote and led a one-day Book Arts workshop for A-level art students, part of the AttRAct programme at the Royal Academy, UK

>February 2010
Federculture Centro/Periferia exhibition, Rome, Italy

>October 2009
"The Third Eye", group exhibition of Lebanese artists at Selma Feriani Gallery, curated by Costantino d'Orazio, London, UK.

>September 2009
Completed an MRes in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the London Consortium, UK. Dissertation title: 'Scientific Playthings: The Play of Things and with Things in the Creation of Scientific Knowledge.'

>August 2009
Wrote a feature titled 'What I do with Books', pp.68-75 of Artist's Book Yearbook 2010-2011: the journeY of A Book is the Beginning of a cover. Impact Press, CFPR, Bristol: 2009.

>23 May 2009
Gave a paper at "Collecting and Gathering: Making Worlds and Staking Claims" conference at Columbia University, NY.

>5 April 2009
Beirut Live! ONE NIGHT ONLY festival celebrating a collaboration of art, music, performance, comedy and book launch from Lebanon. 7.30 to 10.00 pm VIBE LIVE @ Vibe Bar The Truman Brewery. 91 Brick Lane, London UK, E1 6QL.

>30 March - 20 April 2009
READING IN INSTALLMENTS: BOOK ART MEETS INSTALLATION
Exhibition curated by Elysa Voshell with The Center for Emerging Visual Artists at The Felicity R. (Bebe) Benoliel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

>January – March 2009
Hopes and Doubts (2): group exhibition at the Mario Merz Foundation, Turin, Italy.

>December 2008
Hopes and Doubts (1): group exhibition at the Dome, Beirut, Lebanon.

>August – September 2008
co-coordinated AIW:A international artists workshop in Aley, Lebanon.

>March – April 2008
Workshop with Collectif Artistes Plasticiens
-Echange artistique TGD (Tambacounda-Genève-Dakar) - 7e édition
-and atelier at the Collège de la Seymaz in Geneva, Swizerland

>November 2007
Communities and Territories, 3 Workshops on public space:
City tags workshop with Calin Dan in Beirut, Lebanon

>August 2007
Braziers International Artist Workshop at Braziers, Oxfordshire, UK