Ali Hussein Al-Adawy

Ali Hussein Al-Adawy is a curator of film and artistic research projects, researcher, and critic. He teaches and edits sometimes and writes at other times. He’s interested in cinema, moving images, urban contemporary art-related practices, Global Critical theory, and modern and contemporary cultural history. He curated a number of film programs and seminars such as Labor Images (ongoing since 2019), Serge Daney: A Homage and Retrospective (2017), and Harun Farocki: Dialectics of Images…Images that cover/uncover other images (2018). He also curated many exhibitions and public programs, for example, together with Paul Cata, the exhibition “The Art of Getting Lost in Cities: Barcelona & Alexandria” (2017) and the seminar “Benjamin and the City” (2015). He was one of the founders of Tripod, an online magazine for film and moving images critique (2015-2017), and was part of the editorial team of TarAlbahr, an online platform and a publication for urban and art practices in Alexandria (2015-2018). He has also completed an MA in the intersections between human rights and contemporary art at Bard College, New York. 

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Roaming Assembly#32 ~ Ever Given. Convened by Thkio Ppalies ( Peter Eramian & Stelios Kallinikou).