I am an Algerian-Tunisian curator based in the United States. I previously served as the C-MAP Africa Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (2024–2026), where I researched late twentieth-century art in Africa, developed public programs, and co-edited the museum’s digital platform, post.moma.org.
My recent curatorial projects include M’barek Bouhchichi: Black Seeds at Selma Feriani Gallery, Tunis (2025); the three-part exhibition series Cantando Bajito at the Ford Foundation Gallery, New York (2024); Fella Tamzali: Arcanes at rhizome Gallery, Algiers (2024); and the 35th Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts (2023).
I was awarded the CAORC/Andrew W. Mellon Art History Fellowship (2020–2024) at the American Center for Maghrebi Studies (CEMAT), and in 2023, I received the Hyperallergic Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators.
My work focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century art, with a particular interest in modern and contemporary practices from the Maghreb and across Africa. I’m especially drawn to questions of exhibition-making and nation-building, the built environment and spatial politics in contemporary art, as well as feminist creative resistance and publishing practices.
My writing has appeared in platforms such as Hyperallergic, Artforum, moma.org, AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, ElaineAlain, the Mathaf Encyclopedia of Modern Art and the Arab World, as well as in exhibition catalogues.
I am currently open to new opportunities in curating and writing! Contact me at firstname.lastname@gmail.com
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