Curation
2015-Present
Arab Comics is a traveling exhibition that surveys 90 years of comics in the Arab world. It poses the question of what, if anything, is distinctly "Arab" about the figures represented in panels of original and translated comics that appeared in the Middle East from 1925-2015.
I co-curated this exhibit with my sister Mona Damluji and Lena Sawyer in 2015 with sponsorship from Brown University’s Middle East Studies Program and Watson Institute. Since its original run at Brown, the exhibit has traveled to the University of California, Berkeley (2016), the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (2017), Franklin and Marshall College (2017), Montserrat College of Art (2018), and Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2021).
2013-2015
On MAJALAT, I pulled from my research collection to create an online gallery of Arab Comics. The goal was to spotlight the beautiful art that has been a staple of twentieth century Arabic children’s magazines but is not typically included in the global comics canon. A full archive of the blog is below:
in Alexandria, Egypt
in Lebanon
in Egypt
in Egypt
in Lebanon
in Syria
in China
in China
in China
in China
in Taiwan
in Taiwan
in Taiwan
in Tapei, Taiwan
in Taiwan
in the UAE
in the UAE
in the UAE
in the UAE
in the United Arab Emirates
in Paris, France
in Paris, France
in Hong Kong
in Beirut, Lebanon
2010-2011
I took photos of my little Tintin figurine as I traveled for a year studying Tintin on my Watson Fellowship.