select EXHIBITIONS, awards, REVIEWS
2024 — REVIEW — Bringing Soil, Breaking Bread: Archival Praxis in Visual Storytelling of Palestine in Exile — Journal of Palestine Studies
2024 — SCREENING — Artists’ Film International — n.b.k. / Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
2024 — SCREENING — Palestine Spotlight — Centre Clark, Montreal
2024 — GROUP EXHIBITION — P pour Palestine — L’Œil de Poisson, Quebec City
2024 — SCREENING — Artists’ Film International — Sapieha Palace, Lithuania
2024 — SCREENING — Artists’ Film International — Project 88, Mumbai
2024 — SCREENING — Artists’ Film International — LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), California
2024 — AWARD — Astrolab Studios Production Award
2024 — SCREENING — Artists’ Film International — Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2024 — REVIEW — CUAG’s ‘A Dream of Return’ showcases creative resistance through contemporary art — The Charlatan
2024 — SELECTION — Artists’ Film international — Selected by the MMAG Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2024 — GROUP EXHIBITION — A Dream of Return — Carleton University Art Gallery, Ottawa
2024 — SCREENING — Shorts: I Was Here — Mill Valley Film Festival, Mill Valley, California
2024 — GROUP EXHIBITION — P is for Palestine — Plein Sud, centre d’exposition en art actuel à Longueuil, Montreal
2024 — SCREENING — Rehearsing Refusal — Images Festival, Toronto
2024 — SCREENING — Cinema for Palestine: Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora — Digital Arts Resource Centre, Ottawa
2023 — SCREENING — from the river to the sea: Here and There — Vivo Media Arts Centre
2023 — GROUP EXHIBITION — Art Nest Public Art Exhibition — Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto
2023 — GROUP EXHIBITION — Infrastructures of Dissent — Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton
2023 — RESIDENCY — Local Pals Residency — TPFF & Trinity Square Video, Toronto
2023 — GRANT — Research and Creation Grant — Canada Council for the Arts
2022 — GROUP EXHIBITION — New Creatives — Al Ma’mal, Jerusalem
2022 — GROUP EXHIBITION — Shifting Ground — Digital Arts Resource Centre, Ottawa
2022 —SCREENING — Athar Screening Series — QuARC Berlin, Berlin
2022 — GROUP EXHIBITION — Salons: Collections of Memory and Loss — The Qattan, Ramallah
2022 — SCREENING — “Visions of Home” Shorts Programme — Toronto Arab Film Festival
2022 — GRANT — Career Catalyst Grant for New Generation Artists — Ontario Arts Council
2022 — GRANT — Media Artist Grant — Toronto Arts Council
2021 — SCREENING & PANEL — LAND/TRUST: A Conversation Across Turtle Island and Palestine — Queer Cinema for Palestine Film Festival, Embassy Cultural House, London ON
2021 — REVIEW — New RIC Exhibitions Seek Sovereignty Through Art — The EyeOpener
2021 — SOLO EXHIBITION — 1/1000th of a Dunam — The Image Centre, Toronto
2021 — PROGRAM — Community Resource Program — Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
2021 — SCREENING — Palestinian Short Film Series — JAYU, Toronto
2021 — GRANT — Research Creation Grant — Canada Council for the Arts (together with Andi Vicente)
2021 — SCREENING & PANEL — Fluid Frames from the Palestinian Diaspora — Cinema Politica, Montreal
2021 — GRANT — Visual Artist Grant — Toronto Arts Council
2021 — GROUP EXHIBITION — Four Works — The Plumb Gallery, Toronto
2020 — REVIEW — We Didn’t Grow from Nothing — CanadianArt
2020 — REVIEW — Ryerson MFA grad debuts at Toronto Palestine Film Festival — On the Record
2020 — SCREENING & PANEL — Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Toronto
2020 — RESIDENCY — Local Pals Residency – Toronto Palestine Film Festival x Trinity Square Video, Toronto
2019 — AWARD — Documentary for Social Justice Award – Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
select PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
2024 — PANEL — The Future is Ethical: Explore, Challenge and Reshape Narratives for a More Ethical and Impactful Future — International Cooperation Futures
2024 — ESSAY — Art as a Mirror: How Canadian Institutions Are Complicit in Silencing Palestinian Voices — C Magazine
2024 — ESSAY — All Eyes on Palestine: The Responsibility to Witness Suffering — Herizons Magazine
2024 — PANEL — Creative Resistances: Practicing Solidarity in the Arts — Topique, Pique
2023 — ARTICLE — A reading list on Palestinian refusal — Briarpatch Magazine
2023 — PODCAST — Myth: The Israel-Hamas War w/ Rana Nazzal Hamadeh and Musa Springer — The Black Myths Podcast
2023 — CHAPTER — In Driving in Palestine / التحرّك في فلسطين — Fernwood Publishing
2023 — PODCAST — Suspended with Rana Nazzal Hamadeh — International Arrivals Podcast
2023 — PODCAST — Research, Human Rights, and Activism — CJPME All Things Palestinian Podcast
2022 — INTERVIEW — “We inhabit a land; the land inhabits us” — Briarpatch Magazine
2022 — CHAPTER — “Israeli Apartheid Week: Popular Dissent, Creative Intervention” in Advocating for Palestine in Canada — Fernwood Publishing
2022 — ESSAY — The Impulse to Share Evidence — C Magazine
2021 — PRESENTATION — Grounding Nationhood: Soil as a Site of Collective Memory and Decolonial Disruption — Decoloniality & Disintegration of Western Cognitive Empire Conference
2021 — ARTIST TALK — In Conversation: Rana Nazzal Hamadeh and Chandni Desai — The Image Centre
2021 — INTERVIEW — Report from Palestine: “A moment of historic opportunity” — Spring Magazine
education
2018-2020 – MFA DOCUMENTARY MEDIA – Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto
—Graduated with Honours, Toronto Metropolitan Graduate Fellowship 2019 and 2020
2012-2016 – BA HUMAN RIGHTS – Carleton University, Ottawa
—J. Lorne Gray Scholarship 2014, Dean’s Honour List 2014 and 2016
select work experience
2024 – Research Analyst – THE FIRELIGHT GROUP
—Supporting the Health team
2021-2024 – Programs Manager – PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS SUPPORT & HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
—Overseeing implementation of project activities and securing organizational funding
2019-2021 – Communications and Outreach – DECENT WORK & HEALTH NETWORK, Toronto
—Spearheaded communications, created content, and engaged mainstream media for workers’ rights campaigns
2016-2017 – Peer Support Program Coordinator – OTTAWA COMMUNITY IMMIGRANT SERVICES ORGANIZATION, Ottawa
—Established and coordinated pilot peer-support programs engaging refugee youth and women
2013-2019 – Ontario & Special Projects Coordinator – NEXT UP LEADERSHIP, Ottawa & Toronto
—Developed and facilitated 7-month social and environmental justice leadership programs for young adults
select volunteer experience
2023-2024 – Member – ARTISTS 4 PALESTINE
2019-2020 – Co-chair – DOC NOW FESTIVAL, Toronto
2018-2020 – Organizer – CINEMA POLITICA RYERSON, Toronto
2019 – Workshop facilitator – AIDA REFUGEE CAMP COMMUNITY CENTRE, Bethlehem
2014-2017 – Member of Board of Directors – ONTARIO PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP (OPIRG), Ottawa
2009-2016 – Organizer – STUDENTS AGAINST ISRAELI APARTHEID (SAIA), Ottawa