Ali Hussein Al-Adawy is a critic, curator, and researcher. He joined the program from Alexandria, Egypt. Ali’s research interests centered around representations of labor in film and art, the shifting dynamics of art spaces in times of permanent catastrophe, and the relationship between the circulation of images, human rights, and financialization. His thesis project is titled “Purity Is A Matter of An Effective Sewage System: Human Rights and Contemporary Art from Institution to Infrastructure.” It took the form of a written academic thesis.