Receiving the 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts
I’m very honored to share that I was recently announced as one of ten recipients of the 2023 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. The…
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Receiving the Mellon Grant for Bard College
I am pleased to announce that the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Bard College $2,000,000 in support of my research, artistic production, and curatorial…
Co-curating Common Ground: An International Festival on the Politics of Land and Food
Last year I had the pleasure of working with brilliant international artists through Common Ground: An International Festival on the Politics of Land and Food,…
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First Reader of my work is out – Tania El Khoury’s Live Art: Collaborative Knowledge Production
I’m very honored and humbled to share that the first reader of my work was published last month. Edited by Laurel V. McLaughlin and Carrie…
Co-curating Tashweesh Festival 2022
I had the privilege to be invited along with the brilliant Tunisian curator and activist Bochra Triki to co-curate Tashweesh, a festival on feminist practices…
Directing the Center for Human Rights & the Arts
I joined the faculty of Bard College in New York to direct the new OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts. The center supports…
Receiving the 2019 Bessie Award
The Bessies: The New York Dance & Performance Awards Outstanding Production 2019 I am honoured to have been awarded a bessie award for outstanding production…
“Where No Wall Remains” and Other News
Where No Wall Remains An international festival about borders co-curated by Tania El Khoury and Gideon Lester [Photo by Samar Hazboun] I am excited to…
I’m a 2019 Soros Art Fellow
Soros Art Fellowship I am honoured to be one of the cohort of 11 people from around the world who are the 2019 Soros Art…
2019 projects and touring
Life takes you to weird places including New York I was never a big fan of New York or Amreeka as a concept-empire. But being…