This is a list of selected curated exhibitions
2011 “From Aniconism to Bliss: Media art shows its Islamic roots,” Niagara Artists Centre, London, ON (March 19)
2010 “From Aniconism to Bliss: Media art shows its Islamic roots,” DIM Cinema at the Pacific Cinemathèque, Vancouver
2007 “Visualizing Ecstasy,” program for “Mystifying Rumi” conference, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures (October)
2006 “Love, sea, snow and war,” program of experimental films for Toronto Arab Film Festival (December 2006)
2004 “Mortal tissue: Beirut’s cinema of the vulnerable body,” Pacific Cinematheque, San Francisco (November)
2004 “Virtual Beirut,” San Francisco Cinematheque (November)
2004 “Contemporary Arab Cinema,” 13-week free public series at Simon Fraser Harbour Centre Campus (September-December)
2004 “Virtual Beirut: Lebanese artists look beneath the skin of the image,” SeNEF, Seoul Net and Experimental Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea (September)
2004 “Never the Right Time: Experimental Media from the Arab World,” with guest artist Mohamed Soueid, Images Festival, Toronto (April)
2004 “Never the Right Time: Experimental Media from the Arab World,” with guest artist Mohamed Soueid, Available Light Film Collective, Ottawa (April)
2004 “Enfolded Tales,” program for the 20th Annual Conference on Literature and Film, Florida State University, Tallahassee (January)
2002 “The World Seen through Nomadic I’s,” four-part program for Argos Festival, Brussels (October)
2002 “Immanence in the pixel: Islamic and intercultural roots of digital culture,” Race in Digital Space 3.0, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (October)
2002 “Immanence in the pixel: traditional cultural origins of math and technology,” for Subtle Technologies conference, Toronto (May)
2001 “Craving Duration,” for Available Light Collective, SAW Video Co-op, Ottawa (November)
2001 “African Cinema: A Trio,” for Canadian Film Institute, Ottawa (June)
2001 Co-curator (with Robin Curtis), “Out of Time,” section of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany. Included 15 curated programs, 8 guest lectures, 8 commissioned catalogue essays (May)
2000 “Whose Land? Skewed Views of Canadian Geography,” for Available Light Collective, Gallery 101, Ottawa (November)
2000 “Stuck on Structuralism,” for Available Light Collective, SAW Video Co-Op, Ottawa (March)
2000 “Video in the Digital Age,” Saratoga Springs Public Library, Saratoga Springs, NY (February)
1999 “Lo Tek and Loving It: Electronic Media from Analog to ASCII,” videotheque and installation co-curated with Available Light Collective, SAW Video Co-Op and SAW Gallery (May)
1999 CD-ROM selections for “Art Ex Machina,” Carleton University Art Gallery (April)
1998 “Toys F Us,” for Available Light Collective, SAW Video Co-Op, Ottawa (December)
1998 “Men We Love,” for Available Light Collective, SAW Video Co-Op, Ottawa (November)
1998 “Impossible Histories of the Middle East,” for Available Light Collective, SAW Video Co-Op, Ottawa (May)
1998 “Disappearing Images,” for Available Light Collective, SAW Video Co-Op, Ottawa (March)
1998 “Haptic Cinema,” for Proseminar in Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa (February)
1997 Co-curator, “Digital Salon,” Robert Flaherty Seminar, Ithaca, NY (October)
1997 Selection committee, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival (September)
1997 “Community Media in Canada: The Challenge for Change and the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation,” at “Representation, Arts and Media in Education and Community,” Carleton University, Ottawa
1996 Selection committee, LA Freewaves Fifth Celebration of Independent Video, Los Angeles. Individual program: “Short Tapes About Longing”
1996 Selection committee, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival (September)
1995 “What Is a Man?” film/video series, Third Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival, Rochester, NY
1995 “Touch Memory,” Images Festival of Independent Film and Video, Toronto
1994 “Montage—Frottage—Bricolage” film/video series, Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY
1994 Selection, outreach, and program committees, Second Rochester Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
1994 Film program, “Sexual Violence and Exploitation” conference, University of Rochester
1994 “Rumours of War,” film/video series, Pyramid Arts Center
1994 “All Persuasions: Women's Erotic Imagery,” film/video series co-curated with Stephanie Maxwell, Rochester Institute of Technology and Pyramid Arts Center
1993 “Rituals for Power,” film/video series, Pyramid Arts Center
1993 Selection committee, First Rochester Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Rochester, NY
1993 “Film and Video from the New Colony,” Pyramid Arts Center
1992 “Palestine: The Aesthetics of Exile,” film and video series, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and other locations, Rochester, NY
1988 Co-organizer, “Public Relations: Kodak, the Community, and the Media,” exhibition, Pyramid Arts Center