Selected Grants and Awards

• 2025, Vera and Göran Agnekil's prize, The Swedish Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm.

• 2025, Postnord Stamp sketch assignment, Young Swedish Design 2025, Stockholm

• 2024, Atelier support, Göteborg city, Göteborg

• 2024, Project Grant Pronto, Göteborg City, Tapestry of Diaspora, Göteborg

• 2024, Assistant grant, Konstnärsnämnden, Stockholm

• 2024, Project Grant Pronto, Göteborg city, Bläck och tråd, Göteborg

• 2024, Tobison Foundation, HDK Valand, University of Göteborg, Sweden

• 2024, Rewilding project, Mobility grant, Catch (Helsingør Kommune) Center for Art, Technology and Design, Denmark

• 2024, Västra Götalands region, Guest ateljé in Belgrade, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2024, Bror Hjorth award, Nominated, Bror Hjorth award for young illustrator, Uppsala, Sweden

• 2023, Arnulfska Foundation, Travel grant, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2023, Adlerbertska Foundation, Travel grant, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2023, Pronto project grant, The city of Göteborg, Sweden

• 2023, Arnulfska Foundation, Travel grant, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2022, Konstnärsnämnden, One-year work grant, Stockholm, Sweden

• 2019, Stipendiet Kulturkraft, Malmö City, Project support, Malmö, Sweden

• 2018, The Swedish King’s Young Leader scholarship, Nominated, Malmö, Sweden

• 2014, Al-Basel Scholarship, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Sweden

Selected Residencies

• 2025, Platform artspace and residency, Hearsay residency, Vasa, Finland, April-Juni

• 2024, Belgrade AIR, Guest ateljé in Belgrade supported by Västra Götalands region, Serbia

• 2024, The Rewilding project, An artistic research trip in Croatia supported by Catch (Helsingør Kommune) Center for Art, Technology and Design, Denmark

• 2022, Gallery p21, Online residency, London, UK

Selected Public Art

• 2025, Postnord, Sketch assigment for Postnord stamps, Stockholm

• 2024, Dictatorship Blue, Installation at Hammarkullen Train Station, Electric stairs, Göteborg

• 2024, Death Jackets, Installation at Hammarkullen Station Vitrine, Göteborg

• 2024, Lament of Warfare, Video installation at Katarinahissen-Slussen, Stockholm

• 2023, Hijacking, Performance as part of the Graduation show at CPH Fashion Week, Copenhagen

Selected Commissions

• 2024, Not Your Habibi, Collaboration design for the underground collective NYH, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2023, Hijacking, A collaboration project for Copenhagen Fashion Week, Copenhagen, Denmark

• 2022, Love is Not a Crime, A commission for Syrian Untold magazine, Berlin, Germany

• 2022, Between a Sky and Rooftop, Collaboration with Dance Remainings, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2021, Together as Ourselves, Commission for the Pride campaign for Vans Sweden at Vans boutique, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2019, Queer Asia book, wrote a chapter for Queer Asia book, London, UK

• 2018, Vad Händer Nu book, A feminist manifest, Malmö-Sweden

• 2026-2028, Private commissions, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, USA

• 2014, Prints illustrator and designer, XO fashion house, Aleppo, Syria

Selected Workshops

• 2024, Writing workshop, Writing about your artistic practice with Sonia Hedstrand, Röda Sten Konsthall, Sweden

• 2022, Summer workshop, Taught high school kids at Angered Kulturhus, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2022, Eid workshop, A workshop with Syrian artist Heba Akkad at Angered Kulturhus, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2022, Nätverksträffen, Stratgy exchange at NFK Gästatlje i Malongen, Stockholm, Sweden

• 2018, Manga workshop, Skurup’s Library, Skurup, Sweden

• 2017, Comics workshop, Skurup’s library, Skurup, Sweden

• 2015, Workshop on body anatomy, Lattakia’s Cultural Center, Lattakia, Syria

• 2014, Photography, with artist Issa Touma at Issa Touma Gallery, Aleppo, Syria

• 2014, Calligraphy, Athar El Farasha Gallery, Aleppo, Syria

Selected Artist talks & presentations

• 2025, Platform fr, Presentation and artist talk, Hearsay Residency, Vaasa, Finland

• 2025, HDK Valand, Artist talk for the BFA2 in Photography at HDK Valand, Göteborg

• 2025, Weaving Truths: Storytelling and Speculation, a conversation with Careen Koleilat, Gallery KC, Göteborg

• 2024, Sta. Demonia, Presentation of the exhibition Great-grandmother Tattoos, Stockholm

• 2024, Slakthuset, Presentation of my graduation project at HDK Valand, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2022, SEIZED, Artisit talk at Oceanin, Göteborg, Sweden

• 2022, The Oracle podcast, An artist conversation as part of H22 event, Helsingborg, Sweden

• 2021, News From Nowhere, Artist talk at SEAS art gallery, Brighton, UK

• 2019, The Liminal, Online Artist talk at The British Museum, London, UK

• 2018, The Art of (war)Peace, Artist talk at Studiefrämjandet, Malmö, Sweden

• 2018, Migration Memory Encounters, Artisit talk at Garaget bibliotek, Malmö, Sweden

• 2017, Maskara magazine, A profile about my art and work in Malmö’s university magazine, Malmö, Sweden   

• 2017, Old New Ways Of Seeing In A Binary World, Artists talk “The Conference” at Babel, Malmö, Sweden

• 2017, TEDx Talk, Gave a talk about my work in art and trauma at Folketspark in Malmö, Sweden

Member of

• 2025- , Svenska Tecknare

• 2024- , Svensk form

• 2022- , Konstnärernas Riksorgansation

• 2022- , Konstnärscentrum Väst

Represented

• Tobison Foundation, HDK Valand Archive Collection

• Västrås Municipality

• Skurup Manuicipality

• Gallery SEAS, Brighton/UK

• Private collections: Sweden, Syria, UK, USA, Germany, Bulgaria, Denmark, and Turkey

Selected publications

• 2024, Speculative Gatherings, HDK Valand, Götebory University, Sweden

• 2021, News From Nowhere Exhibition's Zine on Displacement & Refuge, SEAS Gallery, UK

• 2020, Compassionate Conversations: How to Speak and Listen from the Heart, Shambhala, USA

• 2019, Queer Asia Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender, SOAS University, Bloomsbury Publishing, UK