select presentations, awards
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, Palestine
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 — 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 — 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 & REVIEWS
2023 — ESSAY — 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 — ARTIST TALK — In Conversation: Rana Nazzal Hamadeh and Chandni Desai — The Image Centre
2021 — REVIEW — New RIC Exhibitions Seek Sovereignty Through Art — The EyeOpener
2021 — INTERVIEW — Report from Palestine: “A moment of historic opportunity” — Spring Magazine
2020 — REVIEW — We Didn’t Grow from Nothing — CanadianArt
2020 — REVIEW — Ryerson MFA grad debuts at Toronto Palestine Film Festival — On the Record
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
2021-2023 – Programs Manager – PALESTINIAN POLITICAL PRISONERS SUPPORT & HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
—Overseeing implementation of project activities and securing rganizational funding
2019-2021 – Communications and Outreach Organizer – 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
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