Researching, Writing, Speaking
This non-exhaustive list doesn't contain publications preceding 2011 and publications not available in digital format.
Research & Essays
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On that Awaited Moment or Mobilization through Culture: An Introduction to a Decade of Syrian Cultural Activism in Paris - Part 1, & Part2, Al Jumhuriya, 2023 (grant recipient of Ettijahat-Independent Culture's 2021 Research Program, in Arabic)
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On Translating the Stories of Asylum Seekers: Reflections on the Dramaturgy of Reality, Reinventing the Margins, 2022 (in Arabic)
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A Tribute to Etel Adnan, Qisetna, 2021 (original in Arabic)
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Etel Adnan et L’Apocalypse arabe, in Catherine Coquio, Jean-Paul Engélibert et Raphaëlle Guidée (dirs.), Apocalypses, une imagination politique (XIXe-XXIe s.), coll. "La Licorne", Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2018; revised version in Présences arabes: Art Moderne et Décolonisation. Paris 1908-1988, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 2024
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The Day My Syrian Friend Wished She Were Chinese, The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Medium, 2018
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You Have Seen Nothing in Syria, The Arts Journal, 2017
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The World as a Battlefield: The Migration of Contemporary Syrian Arts and the Prospects of Continuity in Hosting Countries, translated by: Karim Anani, Ettijahat-Independent Culture, 2015 (original in Arabic)
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Relocating Arab Arts and Cultural Practices in the Contemporary World, Roberto Cimetta Fund, 2015
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Exiled Scene(s): Anchors and Displacements of Syrian Theatre since 2011, keynote speech at IETM Plenary Meeting, Montpelier, 2014 (original in French)
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Conversations
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An Unfinished Conversation with Etel Adnan, Part 1, 2, & 3, Al-Jumhuriya, 2024 (in Arabic)
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Broadening the Conversation about Sustainability and International Collaboration in the Arts: Crossed perspectives from India, Bulgaria, the UK, Iran and the Gaza Strip, a series of podcast commissioned by the Flanders Arts Institute, 2023 (conversations and transcriptions in English)
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Syrian Theatre Practices Beyond National Borders: A Conversation with Abdullah Al-Kafri and Simon Dubois, SyriaUntold, 2021 (original in Arabic)
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Shubbak Festival; The First Ten Years - Conversation with Eckhard Thiemann, Shubbak - A Window on Contemporary Arab Culture, 2021
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Conversations About Contemporary Cultural Practices: Syria as a Model (2017-2020), a series of podcast commissioned by Ettijahat-Independent Culture, 2020 (conversations in Arabic, English and French, with transcriptions in English and Arabic)
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Le brin de paille qui brisa l'échine du chameau: Rencontre avec le réalisateur syrien Ossama Mohammed, Transeuropéennes, 2011
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Contribution to collective publications
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A Moment of Art: Beyond the Boundaries of Geography, co-director & editor of the conference publications, Ettijahat-Independent Culture, 2023 (Arabic & English)
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In Search of Equal Partners: On Being a SWANA Artist and Cultural Worker in the EU, contribution to Engaging with SWANA/MENA cultural agents in the EU's research panel on the theme of Mobility, Culture Action Europe, 2021
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Case Study on Theatre Translation between Europe and the Arab World, contribution to the mapping with a research on theatre translation between Arabic and European languages, Transeuropéennes, 2011-2012
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Locus Agonistes: Practices and Logics of the Civic, editor of Meeting Points 6 catalogue in collaboration with Paula Cook and Veerle Vanderleen, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 2011​
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Interviews​
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The Limits of the Possible in Syrian Cultural Work: With Arts manager and Researcher Jumana Al-Yasiri, Oyoun Elkalam Podcast, 2024 (conversation in Arabic)
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Interview with Jumana Al-Yasiri: Questions About Cooperation, ONDA - Focus Danse & Biennale de la Danse, Lyon, 2023
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Future Paths: A Review on a Constitutive Decade - Jumana Al-Yasiri, Ettijahat-Independent Culture, 2022 (conversation in Arabic)
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Jumana Al-Yasiri: Cultural Producer, interview by Tui McLean for Qisetna, 2021
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The Role of Theatre in Society after the Arab Spring's Revolutions, France 24, 2017 (conversation in Arabic)
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Art is important: Engaging D-CAF seminar spotlights the value of art, interview by Sara Elkamel for Ahram Online, 2014​
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Speaking Engagements (selection)
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Panel moderator: Launching of the Khaled Khalifa Novel Award, Institut du Monde arabe, Paris, 2024
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Panel moderator: "Hosting artists at risk: networks, cultural organizations, and policy makers" - Among the activities of the conference "Artistic practices in exile: incitements, labels, and political engagement?", Le 6b, Saint Denis, 2024
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Panelist - Discussion "Art in Struggle and the Arab Apocalypse", Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, 2024
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Panel moderator - The 10th anniversary of the digital platform Creative Memory, Institut du Monde arabe, Paris, 2023
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Paper presentation - the 6th Conference of the Arab Council for Social Sciences, Beirut, 2023
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Panelist - the 50th celebration of Sinbad collection/Actes Sud, Institut du Monde arabe, Paris, 2022
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Panel moderator - Syrien n'est fait, Paris, 2022
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Panelist and guest translator - La Chartreuse-Centre national des écritures du spectacle, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, 2022
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Panelist - The Culture Protection Fund & Shubbak Festival, London, online, 2021
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Panelist - Sustaining Theatre and Dance Foundation, South Africa, online, 2020
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Panel moderator - Shubbak Festival, London, 2019
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Panel moderator - Reshape Forum, Lublin, 2019
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Panel moderator and speaker - Moussem Nomadic Arts Centre, Brussels, 2019
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Panelist - La Mama & The Remote Theatre Project, New York, 2019
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Master of ceremony - Sharjah & UNESCO Prize for Arab Culture, Paris, 2019
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Panel moderator - Le Phénix - Scène nationale, Valenciennes, 2018
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Panelist - Pro Helvetia/Cross Roads, Basel, 2018
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Panelist - Institut Français, New York, 2018
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Panelist - Carthage Theatre Days, Tunis, 2016
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Panel moderator and program consultant - IETM Satellite Meeting in Beirut, 2016
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Panelist - Landscapes of Hope, Ettijahat - Independent Culture & Action for Hope, Berlin, 2016
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Panelist - ONDA, Paris, 2015
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Panelist - Independent Mobility Funds in the Mediterranean & Central America’s Meeting, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2015
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Panelist - IETM Spring Plenary Meeting, Bergamo, 2015
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Panelist - SEAAA Platform for Artistic and Cultural Mobility in South Europe, Arab World, Asia and Australia, Athens, 2015
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Panelist - The Euro-Arab Relations and Local Cultural Development Seminar, Brussels, 2015
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Keynote speaker - IETM Spring Plenary Meeting, Montpelier, 2014
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Panelist and guest translator - Hiwarat - Arab Dramaturgy Conference, Marseille, 2013
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Guest translator - International Seminar of Theatre Translation, Montreal, 2013
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Panelist - Guimaraes European Capital of Culture, 2012
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Panelist - Les Ateliers de l'Institut Français, Marseille, 2011​
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