Expeditions of ProjectionVIBE, 2023
leena aboutaleb
leena aboutaleb is an egyptian and palestinian writer. she holds an MA in Media and Strategic Communications from the George Washington University, with her focus in Palestinian temporality and language-making.
Cairo, Egypt
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Selected work (2 publications)
'Is-Was': Temporalities, Hauntings, and Al-FaraghThis text aims to contribute to the ever-shapeshifting futurity of Palestinians through the frames of temporality and spatiality, most notably through the archive and construction of language.
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Through the Algorithm: Empire, Power and World-Making in Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s ‘If only this mountain between us could be ground to dust’ at the Art Institute ChicagoWhat is most striking about Abbas and Abou-Rahme’s work is the Fanonian sense apparent in their work: to not only destroy the colonial settler’s fundamental grounds, but the entire rationality that the colonial settler works within.
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