Selected curated exhibitions

2007   “Visualizing Ecstasy,” program for “Mystifying Rumi” conference, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures (October)

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)