Speaker / Panelist / Moderator

  • Art for Tomorrow Conference 2023 Florence, Italy - Panelist - "Gender in the Arts: Crises and Correctives"
  • Unfinished Democracy Conference 2023 Bucharest, Romania - Speaker - "Poetry > Politics"
  • Qatar Creates 2022 - Panelist - "The Stories They Tell: Arab Women in the Arts"
  • ​Doha Women's Forum 2022 - Speaker - "Women in Action on Climate Change"
  • Khouri Conversations with Peter Beinart 2020 - Discussant - "Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine"
  • Habib Public Schools Library Convention 2020 - Keynote Address - "Dreaming Into an Empowered Education"
  • Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2019 -  Curator and Moderator - "They Write Shadow into Light"
  • TYG @ Pullman Dubai 2018- Panelist - “Personal Pathways to Success”
  • TEDx SPJain Dubai 2018 - Speaker - "Unprecedented"
  • TEDxYouth Weekend at Cambridge High School Abu Dhabi 2016 - Speaker - "Babelogue: Reprogramming the Human OS"
  • GCC Gov HR Summit 2016 –  Moderator - "Winning the War of Talent Management in Challenging Times"
    ​​and "The Equality Dialogue"
  • Wolff Olins Creative Agency 2015 – Speaker - "Creative Storytelling"
  • The Awareness Project 2015– Speaker - "Poet, know thyself"
  • Muslim Protagonist Symposium- Columbia University NY 2015 –  Panelist - “Narratives of Muslim Women” 
  • Muslim Protagonist Symposium- Columbia University NY 2015 –  Moderator - “Hip Hop and Protest”
  • Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature 2015–  Panelist - “Is Theatre Flourishing in Dubai?”
  • Sikka Art Fair 2012- Panelist - "Role of Citizen as Curator"
  • International Theatre Symposium Chicago 2011 –  Respondent -  “Internationalism” Panel Discussion

Trainings & Workshops

​​➢ “Write Yourself” @ Private Nature Retreat Spain, 2022
​➢ “Write Yourself” @ PAL Arts Festival UK, 2022
​➢ “Write Yourself” Online @ Mystic Fridays 2020
​➢ “Autobiographical Art” NYU AD J-term intensive @ FeynanEco Lodge Jordan, 2019
➢ “Time Banking” @ Mystic Earth Festival Jordan, 2019
➢ “Write Yourself” @ Nasab Ramadan UAE, 2019
➢ “Write Yourself” @ Liverpool Arab Arts Festival UK, 2019
➢ “Find Your Voice” @ Liverpool Arab Arts Festival UK, 2019
➢ “Art as Expression” workshop for the Yemeni female diaspora @ LAAF UK, 2019
➢ “Write Yourself” @ Retreat in Pisac, Peru, July 2018
➢ Sustainability @ KHDA Saturday Club Dubai, UAE, 2018
➢ 1-day “Capoeira and Time Banking” for KHDA’s Sustainability Saturday Club, Dubai 2017
➢ 1-day on “The Work That Reconnects” for Taijitu House of Om, Dubai 2017   
➢ Acting and Improvisation for Public Speaking- Dubai Petroleum, First Gulf Bank, 2016
​➢ 1-day on Casting & Directing Actors for Arab Film Studio Competition 2015 participants, Image Nation Abu Dhabi 
​➢ "Finding your Poetic Voice" for students at GEMS Wellington Academy UAE 2015
➢ Acting and Improvisation for Youth at Haya Cultural Center in Amman, Jordan 2014
➢ 2-month Drama Therapy Program for UAE children with Autism, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court 2013
➢ 2-day Acting workshop at Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center, Malaysia 2013
➢ 1-day Creating a Stage Character for Rock Camp for Girls- UAE 2012
➢ Modeling and Audition Techniques for youth at Yasmin Talent Center, Dubai 2012
➢ Ongoing private classes with professionals to teach public speaking, voice over 2012-2021

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