My photographic practice is an interplay between personal narrative and embodied memory, employing self-portraiture and symbolic artefacts, such as my Inside-Out Thobe [Palestinian Cross-stitched dress] or a broken camera, as sites of resilience and reclamation. Drawing from autoethnographic methodologies, my work transforms private grief into a critical discourse on trauma, agency and humour. Through materially engaged processes, I examine how post-memory manifests in diasporic consciousness.

My work explores cultural heritage and resilience through Tatreez [traditional Palestinian embroidery]. I've started embroidering a dress for a young girl from Gaza, inspired by a Thobe made for me by my own aunt as a child, to offer dignity, love, and ancestral strength amid tremendous displacement and loss. I'm also currently focused on digitising embroidery patterns from my grandmother’s thobes, preserving their symbolic motifs to safeguard this legacy for future generations. Both pieces honour intergenerational knowledge, resistance, and the enduring power of craft as both personal and collective history.

I facilitate voluntary workshops on Palestinian Tatreez, a traditional embroidery practice, exploring its history and cultural significance. Each session includes a hands-on component where participants learn basic stitches and embroider a small motif. These workshops, previously hosted at VU Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam, and private venues, offer an inclusive space to engage with Palestinian heritage, feminism, and politics through craft. All skill levels are welcome.