I’m a London-based academic, curator, and multidisciplinary artist exploring listening and curating in social justice movements. Through residencies, workshops, and collaborations with cultural institutions, I create spaces that challenge anti-Arab racism, amplify first and second-generation migrant voices, and reimagine how we archive feelings and experiences of belonging and exclusion.
My work spans teaching, writing, organising symposia and installations, and running hands-on workshops. Driven by questions of what cultural organisers and grassroots musicians care about and how care is practiced, I try to bring awareness to the importance of self-funded and collectively run spaces for art and sound productions that act as models for social and political change. My main interest lies in the emotional dimensions of socially engaged art. I ask:
How do structural forms of discrimination shape how artists feel about institutions and archives with colonial legacies?
I hold a PhD in Ethnomusicology & Curatorial Practice from King’s College London, an MSt in Music from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Musicology and Psychology from the University of Heidelberg.
Alongside my academic work, I organise public engagement projects and safer space workshops in Germany and the UK. Contact me via email if you want to collaborate or have a conversation about future projects.