In June 2024, I gave a public talk for Afikra Washington D.C. focused on my village, Battir, located between Jaffa and Jerusalem, and its survival during the 1948 Nakba. The talk examined oral history surrounding Hassan Mustafa, a local legend, as well as Battir’s agricultural traditions, historic railway infrastructure, and the village’s ongoing practices of land-based resistance, including its ancient irrigation systems and collective stewardship.

Selected through an international curatorial jury, this workshop and exhibition was developed during a Gate 27 residency in Istanbul. Desen is a digital storytelling platform that links ecological movement to human migration through botanical and craft-based motifs. Participants generated visual patterns and short narratives drawn from tulip, pomegranate, and carnation traditions, layering them with personal migration histories. I led the archival and cultural research and narrative framework, while my collaborator, Anna Rebecca Unterholzner, led platform development. The prototype was tested through a public workshop with artists, gathering feedback to refine the platform.

During an art residency in Blanca, Spain, I developed and performed Janaa Wa Naar (Heaven & Hell), a live poetry reading and spatial installation responding to Salinas del Curro, an abandoned salt plain. The performance draws parallels between this site and Al Maliha, the Palestinian village my grandmother was exiled from.