Sara-Duana Meyer

Sara-Duana Meyer is a curator, writer, literary scholar and cultural producer currently based between Munich, Germany and Cairo, Egypt. She has taught literature, cultural theory and visual studies at several universities in Germany and India, and has been conducting workshops on various topics. Sara-Duana has worked for and with several cultural institutions and festivals in Europe and the MENA region, most recently a theater festival in Kurdistan/Iraq. Among others she conceived and curated an interdisciplinary festival on freedom of expression in Munich and Cairo in 2011. She is intrigued by interdisciplinary approaches and fascinated by the oscillation of the inbetween. More specifically her work and research interests include art of resistance and art in public space, urbanism and urban culture, global city literature, postcolonialism, gender studies and visual culture. She is a member of the Arts Rights Justice network and Artistic Director of Spring Lessons, an initiative for socio-cultural projects and platform for artistic research which she co-founded in 2011.

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On quiet afternoons and busy times: Darb 1718. A portrait of a cultural center
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