A piece of digital theater about connecting with family at a distance prompts a reckoning with the guilt of emigration.
Read MoreRamsey Faragallah (left) and Yousof Sultani (right) in This Is Who I Am. Photo: PlayCo/Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company
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Sope Dirisu as Bol in a still from His House (2020)
'His House' Review: The ghosts we carry with us
An understated, yet resoundingly impactful exploration of the overlap between the real-life horrors of a refugee’s journey and the metaphor-heavy horror genre, His House offers a multi-sensory manifestation of the ghosts that refugees carry with them.
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Edited image of Greek refugees leaving Smyrna, 1922.
One Day at a Time #10: A Genealogy of Migration
in essay, photography, memory, politics
When a news photograph meets a precious moment of family history.
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Bouchra Khalili. The Mapping Journey Project. 2008–11. Eight-channel video (color, sound), duration variable. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fund for the Twenty First Century, 2014. © 2016 Bouchra Khalili. Courtesy of the artist.
Essay for MoMA post: Documenting Migration in Contemporary Art
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How to raise awareness of the most recent refugee crisis in the Mediterranean in a way that does not spectacularize human suffering? Beginning with Bouchra Khalili's The Mapping Journey Project, this essay addresses how the present crisis has manifested as image and has made its way, across a variety of methodological and ethical approaches, into works of art.
Read MoreBowdoin Prize for a Graduate Essay in the English Language
My essay on European refugees in the Middle East during World War II won one of Harvard's oldest and most prestigious writing awards.
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