• for three years (2019-2021) I worked as part of Qaaf Laam Collective, a group of researchers, cultural workers and artists that aim to critically open discussions about work environments in art and culture. We collectively study and develop strategies and tools for a collective change in labor conditions within the cultural sector. During the 2020 lockdown, Qaaf Laam conducted a program on Radio al-Hara, reaching wider audiences, art collectives, and institutions across the Arab region. We covered various topics such as labor solidarity, alternative strategies for accountability and sustainability in independent work environments, and addressed the precarity of freelancing and volunteering. This developed into audio group discussion on the theme of "working from home," which is available on Mada Masr platforms. And a writing essay and roundtable discussion hosted at CIC Cairo as part of ‘Co-Rooms: Notes on Collaboratation’ Curated by Engy Mohsen and edited by Mai El Wakil.

Qaaf-Laam has recently contributed in essay and a panel discussion ‘ Why do we form collectives?’ as part of  ‘Rooms: Notes on Collaboration’ edited by Mai El-Wakil, curated by Engy Mohsen and hosted at the CIC in 2021. 








A presentation and ongoing research studies women narratives of the everyday in Cairo. The research is an extension of  My MA thesis research on the visual representations of women in modern Egyptian art. Between Formal narrative and contemporary art narrative, i investigate the everday experience through the city. 

 









A thesis research that studies the visual representation of women in art . on a timeline it starts with orientalist representations of women in art in modern Egypt. I track how the images of women were deployed and appropriated in different mediums such as painting, illustrated magazines, film posters, magazine covers, sculpture and video art that intervine with concepts such as nationalism, domesticity and public sphere.