dolls rituals
This series of paintings represents the plastic medium of my current project, “REPRODUCTION” Through it, I engage with the concepts of alienation and objectification,
starvation
The current situation has garnered considerable international attention due to allegations that a country is utilizing famine as a weapon of war…
a Suitcase memory
This project represents the narrator of the whole story. Those who froze to death in refugee camps. Those who walked barefoot through the Balkan
a S-M Video Installation
This project represents the narrator of the whole story. Those who froze to death in refugee camps. Those who walked barefoot through the Balkan
names are evidence
After the massacre, the world buzzed with questions about evidence, parties involved, reasons, and numbers. As for us, we were recording the names, because
memory reunion
This group of paintings was the first work I created immediately after my arrival from Damascus. At that time, I didn’t have a studio
dialogue tables
So as the “Evolution Theory” is, in regard to the organs development, genetic changes and the mutations which create new species, I could not
typographical memes
In his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene,” biologist Richard Dawkins introduced a revolutionary concept in the realm of culture and knowledge: the “meme.” This
ruin
this project took part in the #callforaction campaign to support basmeh & zeitooneh, an organization that serves approximately 17,214 syrian refugees in lebanon.
dictator election programme
The presidential elections in Syria are not merely a farce devoid of any connection to democratic elections. Rather, they are a slap in the
Acting within a humane society
migration researcher Manuela Bojadžijev, artist Ala’ Hamameh and writer Adania Shibli, moderated by HKW director Bernd Scherer, examined concepts of dialog, of speaking with
inheritance
According to the concept of reproduction, totalitarian regimes ensure the continuation of their dominance by replacing ideological institutions.
In Syria, this extends to
scarecrow
“Fear is man’s greatest adversary, and the scarecrow is its embodiment. In facing the scarecrow, we learn that courage is resistance to fear, mastery
Frontline
Without exception, physicians as well as medical health care practitioners are having in hospitals, the international medical centers and health sectors a fierce confrontation
Dictator Trilogy
On the third anniversary of the uprising, I presented this work titled “Tyrant Trilogy” at the Beirut Art Fair 2014. It was a tragic
syrian scene
During the peak of the violence in Syria between 2011 and 2013, I presented three collections with unsettling titles (Syrian Scenes, Wailing, and Field
Two sides of a coin
The Marxist concept of “counter-revolution” refers to actions aimed at undermining the social and political changes demanded by oppressed peoples. In the context of