I Will Always Be Look For You: A Queer Anthology on Arab Art

The event will take place in the Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London.

I Will Always Be Looking For You is a queer anthology on Arab art. It gathers the works of 31 artists from 13 Arabic-speaking countries, with literary contributions by 24 commissioned writers from across the region and its diaspora. The writing spans a wide range of genres, poetry, essays, fiction, and experimental text, each in direct dialogue with the visual artwork it accompanies.

The anthology represents the first intentional gathering of intergenerational artistic voices in one volume, expanding the definition of queerness in the Arab world not as a fixed identity, but as a generative force, a method, a rupture, and a refusal.

About the speakers:

Nadim Choufi is a Lebanese artist and editor.

Yasmine Rifaii is an artist from El Mina, Lebanon. Her practice traverses editorial, curatorial, architectural, and visual art disciplines. She is the Creative Director of Haven for Artists, a Beirut-based cultural feminist organization, and the co-founder of Al Hayya, a print magazine and online platform dedicated to the Arab woman. 

Dayna Ash (she/they) is an intersectional feminist, performing artist, writer, and the founder & Executive Director of Haven for Artists, a cultural feminist organization working at the intersection of art and activism. Dayna is an autodidact academic whose work in the arts is rooted in intersectional and decolonial queer practices for creating alternative structures and a community-based approach to fighting injustice and oppression.

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