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Curation, Strategy & Programs Implementation   

 

• Co-curator and moderator of the discussions series Jiwar: A Program Beyond Theatre, in partnership with Mraya Theater Project (Damascus), 2025

• Artists discussions co-curator and moderator: Dérive casablancaise, Association Les Rencontres de la Danse AR2D (Casablanca), 2024

• Dissemination Editor of A Fair New Idea: Sustainably and International Collaboration in the Arts, Flanders Arts Institute (Brussels), 2022

• Co-curator of the digital conference and publication A Moment of Art | Beyond the Boundaries of Geography, Ettijahat-Independent Culture (Beirut), 2021-2022

• Middle East & North Africa Manager, Sundance Institute Theatre Program (New York), 2015-2020

• Program Consultant of "Lands in Exile", The Walk - Good Chance (London), 2020

• Film Curator of "Moussem Cities: Damascus", Moussem Nomadic Arts Center & Cinema Nova (Brussels), 2019

• International Development Officer, Hammana Artist House (Hammana), 2019

• Curator of the Talks & Discussions series of "The Arab Arts Focus", D-CAF (Cairo & Edinburgh), 2014, 2015 & 2017

• Grants Manager, Young Arab Theatre Fund (Brussels), 2011-2014

• Program Consultant, Morgenland Festival (Osnabrück), 2008-2010

• Contemporary and World Music Programmer, Damascus Arab Capital of Culture 2008 (Damascus), 2007-2009 

• Local Coordinator of "Meeting Points 5", Young Arab Theatre Fund (Damascus), 2007

• Culture and Information Coordinator, The Delegation of the European Commission to Syria (Damascus), 2006-2007 

• Press Attachée, Centre culturel français de Damas (Damascus), 2003-2004

• Various experiences as a free lance project manager and coordinator in the framework of regional and international activities and programs (Damascus), 2002-2010

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Consulting, Mentorship & Evaluation  

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• Workshop facilitator: Managing public theatre compagnies in the GCC, The Permanent Committee of the Public Theatre Groups of the GCC (Riyadh), 2024 

• Workshop facilitator: Cooperate, with whom?, ONDA - Focus Danse, Biennale de la Danse & Institut Français (Lyon), 2023

• Workshop facilitator: A solid chart and a transversal knowledge: the first steps towards building your project successfully, Bounce Program, Artcena/Circostrada (Paris), 2022 & 2023

• Project Evaluation Consultant: Collectiva Shamila: Pan-Arab Network of Women Change Makers, Sharq for Citizen Development (Larnaca), 2023

• Middle East Consultant: mapping and identifying the needs in terms of artists protection, freedom of speech and advocacy (special focus on Turkey and Iran), Artists at Risk Connection/PEN America (New York), 2023

• Workshop facilitator: General Safety Training for Artists and Cultural Professionals, Cinema without Border program, Movies that Matter (The Hague), 2023

• Expert Team Member: co-leading Houna aShabab, a mentorship program targeting early-career cultural managers and media professionals from the MENA region, Med Culture Programme (Casablanca, Marrakech, Tunis, Amman), 2015-2016

• Jury Member: Royal Shakespeare Company (London, 2024); Movies That Matter (The Hague, 2023); Arab Theater Training Center (Beirut, 2022); La Cité internationale des Arts (Paris, 2020); Culture Resource (Beirut, 2018, 2020 & 2025); Roberto Cimetta Fund (Paris, 2010-2015)…

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Writing, Research & Translation 

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• Author of several research papers, articles, essays, interviews, podcasts... exploring contemporary artistic creation in the SWANA region and its diasporas ​

• Regular panelist and keynote speaker at regional and international art programs, conferences and networking events 

• Copy editor and translator (Arabic, English, French), collaborations include: the Centre Pompidou, Grand Palais, Mucem (France), Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE), Videos for Change (USA), Artlink (Switzerland), Bozar (Belgium)... 

• Theatre translation (Arabic & English into French):

-Terror, Liwaa Yazji (Syria, 2025)

- Aventures d'un Soi hypothétique, Yara Bou Nassar (Liban, 2025)

- And Here I Am, Hassan Abdulrazzak (UK, 2023)

- Tomorrow is the Best Day of My Life, Yara Bou Nassar (Lebanon, 2021)

- Goats, Liwaa Yazji (Syria, 2017)

- Could you please look at the camera?, Online and Youssef Was Here, Mohammad Al-Attar (Syria, 2014)

- La Peur, Hatem Hafez (Egypt, 2013; published in Éditions Elyzad, 2014)​​

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Fellowships & Key Trainings 

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• Ecofeminist and Indigenous Women’s Engagements with Bodies, Lands and Histories, The Knowledge Workshop (Beirut), 2025 

• Arts and Culture Entrepreneurship’s copilots group, Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (Beirut), 2021

• Laboratory for Global Performing Arts & Politics, Georgetown University (Washington DC), 2017-2019

• Institute for International Cultural Relations, Edinburgh University, 2017

• Arab Cultural Policies Research Atelier, Culture Resource & Hildesheim University (Berlin), 2014

• Artist-in-residence, Pro Helvetia (Zurich), 2009 

• International Visitor Leadership Program, U.S. Department of State, 2009

• Economy and Financing of Culture, La Maison des Culture du Monde & Université Paris-Dauphine, 2005

• Cultural management and communications applied to culture, AMI - Aide aux Musiques Innovatrices (Marseille), 2004-2006 & 2010

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Academic Background

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• PhD program in History and Semiotics of Texts and Images, University Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, 2013-2016

• MA in Comparative Literature, University Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, 2011-2013

• BA in Theatre Studies, Damascus Higher Institute for Dramatic Arts, 2001

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