Sariyah Bonnita Jaser Abuzant is a producer and project manager. She joins the program from Palestine by way of Maryland, United States. Sariyah’s research interests focus on conflict resolution in the context of Palestine and community building.
Sariyah Bonnita Jaser Abuzant is a producer and project manager. She joins the program from Palestine by way of Maryland, United States. Sariyah’s research interests focus on conflict resolution in the context of Palestine and community building.
Sarah Al Yahya is a creative technologist and researcher. She joins the program from Amman, Jordan. Sarah’s research interests center on the decolonial and other sociopolitical potential of new media art, Palestine, and the SWANA region. Most recently, her interactive installation YOU ARE NOT HERE showed at the 2023 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.
Anas Alkhatib is an architect, dancer, and spatial researcher. He joins the program from Palestine. Anas’s practice focuses on spatial violence documentation, architectural visualization, and cartography. He is the founder of Architect In Camps” (Me’mar) collective, a multidisciplinary architectural studio.
Elie Arden is a sound designer, installation maker, and performer. She joins the program from the United Kingdom by way of London. Elie’s research interests focus on the relationship between sound and diasporic memory, artificial intelligence, and ecology.
Pyae Phyo Aung is a journalist, researcher, and digital content creator. He joins the program from Myanmar. His research interests include community-based ethnography, storytelling, authoritarian regimes, and digital rights.
Raneem Ayyad is a multidisciplinary researcher, architect, and visual artist. She joins the program from Palestine. Her research focuses on the intersections between the built environment and heritage, with an interest in colonial relations and gender dynamics in Palestine and post-colonial contexts. Raneem is a co-director for the Architect In Camps (Me’mar) collective.
Luka Gotsiridze is a researcher, documentarian, and digital content creator. He joins the program from Georgia, by way of Budapest, Hungary and Vienna, Austria. His research interests include religion and human rights, gender and sexuality, and storytelling and social cohesion.
K. is a social researcher, facilitator, and curator who works at the intersection of social sciences, activism, and arts. Her interests include participatory and community-based practices, post-socialism, mobility, citizenship, and urban studies.
Leil Zahra Mortada is a filmmaker, political organizer, curator, and researcher. Born and raised in South Lebanon, they join the program by way of Berlin, Germany. Leil’s research interests include colonialism, nationalism, migration, transfeminism, and abolition.
Arina Pshenichnaya is a researcher, art historian, and learning experience designer for adult online education. She joins the program most recently from Saint Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, Russia. Arina’s research focuses on artistic representation of repressive practices and their legacies in post-Soviet countries.
Aya Rebai is an architect, scenographer, and a cultural manager. She joins the program from Tunisia. Having worked on a variety of artistic and educational projects in Tunisia, Aya’s own research and practice focus on food politics and cooking as an artistic tool.
Jina Rishmawi is a peace activist and innovator. She joins the program from Palestine, Beit Sahour—the Shepherds Fields—in particular. Jina’s research interests include urban planning, nonviolent resistance, and peacebuilding.
Nestor Rotsen is a fashion and multidisciplinary artist. He joins the program from Moscow, Russia. The main area of interest for Nestor’s work is based on the social and political problems of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries that were previously part of the USSR.
Nabil Salih is a writer and photographer. He joins the program from Baghdad, Iraq by way of Washington DC. Nabil’s research interests include Iraqi politics and psychogeography. His work has appeared in Al Jazeera English, Jadaliyya, Middle East Eye and LeftEast and has been translated into French, Italian, and Spanish.
Ciko Sidzumo has yet to adopt a discipline. She joins the program from Johannesburg, South Africa. Ciko’s research interests include period poverty, gender-based violence, and movements that work toward the eradication of both.
Mauro Tosarelli is a designer and researcher. He joins the program from Italy, by way of Dublin, Ireland. Mauro’s research interests center around detainees and former prisoners as well as the ethics and politics of representing prison life.
Immanuel Williams is an interdisciplinary artist working across the mediums of painting, printmaking, performance, sculpture, drawing, and installation. They join the program from Albany, New York. Immanuel’s research interests include how themes of fragmentation, alteration, and mythification manifest in memories and familial stories retold. Their work was recently featured in Baby Get Closer at Co-prosperity Catskill.
Pavel Zalevskii is a researcher and an activist. He joins the program from the Kyrgyz Republic. Pavel’s research interests center on queer politics and their histories in Central Asia.
Adam HajYahia is Assistant Curator at CHRA and Studio Manager as part of the Mellon Foundation Award to Bard College to support the work of Tania El Khoury. Adam is a researcher, writer, and curator from Palestine. His research and writing focus on images and performativity in the revolutionary context of Palestine and the region, psychoanalysis and labor, as well as the negative economic speculation within contemporary art. His curatorial and pedagogical work has been presented in various galleries, museums and educational institutions, such as The Mosaic Rooms, The James Gallery at the CUNY Graduate Center, Mophradat, The Berlin Biennale 12, MoMA PS1, the Harvard Law School, and Wolfson College, and University of Oxford. Adam is a graduate of the MA in Human Rights & the Arts at CHRA.
Adam HajYahia is an independent researcher, curator, and culture producer. He joins the program from Haifa, Palestine. Adam’s research interests revolve around structural and hierarchical violence, and its intersections with capitalist, colonial, sexual, and social dynamics in Palestine and beyond.
Ali Hussein Al-Adawy is a critic, curator, and researcher. He joins the program from Alexandria, Egypt. Ali’s research interests center 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.
Majd Al-Rafie is a graphic designer, illustrator, and activist. She joins the program from Amman, Jordan. Majd’s research interests include Arab queer politics, Palestinian liberation, and art in activism.
Tâm Liêu Âm is an artist.
Nour Annan is a writer, photographer, and inter-disciplinary artist. She joins the program from Lebanon. Nour’s research interests include collective cultural memory and contemporary revolutionary politics. She is a former editor at Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal.
Isabella Indolfi is an independent curator living between New York City and Maranola (Italy), and working between Western Europe, Russia, Armenia, and the United States of America. Her curatorial research is focused on public art, site-specific, and community-based practices. Since 2009, she has been collaborating with artists, institutions, festivals, museums and universities. Currently she is an independent researcher for Opere Vive, art director at SEMINARIA Biennial Festival of Environmental Art, and co-curator for Cyland Media Art Lab.
Iris Luo tells stories through photography, illustration, and writing, and is trained in theater producing and arts administration. She joins the program from Shanghai, China. Iris’s research interests center on environmental justice as well as South-South and South-North migration, with a particular emphasis on education and health care rights. Her dream is to write fairytales for adults.
Carol Montealegre is an artist working in performance, installation, and video. She joins the program from Bogota, Colombia. Carol’s research interests include experimental film and performance art as mediums for human emancipation. She is the Artistic Director at Liminal Art Collective.
Garrett Sager (a.k.a. Melissabeth) is a multidisciplinary artist with roots in theater and cabaret. He joins the program from the Boston area by way of the Hudson Valley. Garrett’s research interests include pop culture and identity, queer time, and the creation of new genders via performance.
Hattie Wilder Karlstrom is a researcher and an activist. She joins the program from Amherst, Massachusetts by way of Annandale-on-Hudson. Hattie’s research interests center on borders and the people they affect. Hattie was a 2020 participant in the Border Pedagogy Working Group and the recipient of a Watson Fellowship.
Margarita Kuchma is a video and music artist. She joins the program from St. Petersburg, Russia. Margarita’s research interests include sound and video in advocacy, criminal justice reform, and youth empowerment. She is the songwriter and performer on the EP titled What Did You Say.