Aya Nimer
On Omar Offendum’s BAM show — how hakawati, mother-of-pearl, and shammi design create a bridge between a lost Manhattan neighborhood and its living diaspora.
Read essay →On the landmark Block Museum exhibition — how Arab artists used abstraction to negotiate identity, decolonization, and the intimacy of place.
Read essay →On Farah Salem and Anwulika Anigbo’s Chicago Artists Coalition exhibition — the body as a site of pressure, distortion, and indigenous healing.
Read essay →A publication I edited for Pillars Fund — essays, audio, and art by Muslim creatives on imagination, memory, and culture.
Read online →On care as a structural principle — what it means to build arts institutions and creative communities where care is the work, not the supplement.
Read essay →On what authentic Muslim storytelling in mainstream film and television demands — and why getting it right matters for communities whose lives have long been filtered through Hollywood’s lens.
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