Haytham el-Wardany

Haytham el-Wardany is a writer and translator, living and working (still) in Berlin. He spent the last year listening to talking animals, in fables and elsewhere, and learned from them how to speak in moments of danger.

His latest book, Jackals and The Missing Letters (Al-Karma 2023), considers forgotten expressions of hope within Arabic fables, where animals speak and humans listen, in a moment of post “Arab Spring” speechlessness.

In previous publications, including The Book of Sleep and How to Disappear, he has examined the potential of passivity, through regimes of listening and the dialectics of sleep and vigilance.

Haytham is the recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism 2022/2023.

 

 

Haytham @ DAI:

2024-2025 COOP study group ~ Living Room: Rehearsals towards Place-making

2018 ~ Sunday March 18 in Arnhem: Roaming Assembly#20 ~ Between Subversion and Hallucination ~ curated by Ruth Noack

2018 ~ Factory workshop: The Potential for Awakening