Adila Laïdi-Hanieh
Adila La??di-Hanieh is a cultural critic and writer with interest in Palestinian
arts and cultural practices, modern Arab intellectual history, and cultural spaces
and processes. Born in Algeria and was educated there and in Jordan, where she
studied painting with Fahr el Nissa Zeid. She earned a Certificat d?????tudes Politiques from the Institut d?????tudes Politiques de Paris, before completing her B.A.in
International Relations from the United States International University (Alliant
U.) in Mexico City, and her M.A. in Arab Studies from Georgetown University.
She divides her time between Virginia, Ramallah and Algiers.
She published in 2008 the first cultural review of contemporary Palestine, which
commissioned texts and art work from confirmed and emerging artists, novelists
and poets from Palestine and elsewhere: Palestine: Rien ne nous Manque ici
(Palestine: We Lack for Nothing Here). It is the first book to study contemporary
Palestine in an ???introspective, multidisciplinary, and critical manner???.
La??di-Hanieh ran the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre in Ramallah from its
1996 establishment until 2005. She curated there in 2001 the international
touring memorial art exhibition 100 Shaheed-100 Lives. Her work was covered
by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Financial Times, Le Monde,
CNN, the Daily Star, Al-Hayat, Moustaqbal TV, etc. She received on March 8,
2005 the ???International Woman???s Day Award?? from Bethlehem University.
La??di-Hanieh is a cofounder of a number of arts and culture organizations and
foundations ??“on which governing boards??? she served-, such as: The Arab Fund
for Arts & Culture (Amman) , Al-Mawred al-Thaqafy [Cultural Resource]
(Cairo) , the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre Foundation (Ramallah) , and
Shashat (Ramallah) . She was part of the World Economic Forum???s ???Young Arab
Leaders??? initiative and a member of its Council of 100 Leaders of Islam-West
Dialogue (2002-2005). She was a member of the organizing committee of the
2008-09 MASARAT Palestinian cultural season in Belgium , and is a member
of AMCA, the Association for Modern & Contemporary Art of the Arab World,
Iran & Turkey (Denton, TX) .
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