"Queer World Making: Contemporary Middle Eastern Diasporic Art"  by Andrew Gayed, Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the Ontario College of Art and Design University in Canada.

Published by University of Washington Press (2024) the book focuses on the visual works of artists who create political art about queer identity, including Jamil Hellu, Ebrin Bagheri, 2Fik, Laurence Rasti, Nilbar Güres, and Alireza Shojaian.

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Virtual exhibition accessible worldwide through multiple 3D galleries:
www.proartscommons.org/invocationdemocracy
Two Way Lens: Portraits as Empathy
by Humble Arts Foundation
My public installation in partnership with 100 Days of Action Collective,
who has gathered Bay Area artists to respond to the COVID-19 crisis
with messages of solidarity for doctors, nurses, grocers, and city workers.
Mural print installed on the corner of Valencia and 20th street in San Francisco.


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Cover image for the literary journal The Racket, July 2020.

Fundraising exhibition in support of the following organizations fighting for
social justice and equity: Black Trans Advocacy Coalition, Campaign Zero,
Black Voters Matter Fund, Color of Change, Black Mama’s Matter,
The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, 
National Bail Out, and the Anti Police-Terror Project.
Virtual exhibition "Home/Body."
Organized by curator Kathy Zarur and her students of Contemporary Art of the Middle East
 Mills College, Oakland, California.

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Illustrations by George McCalman for the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper
highlighting the opening reception of my exhibition at SF Camerawork.

The Queer Archive Festival in Athens, Greece
February 13-16, 2020

Q&A with Marcela Pardo Ariza for Strange Fire Collective


My work is included in the latest revision of
Art & Queer Culture, by Catherine
Lord and Richard Meyer. Published by Phaidon, the book surveys how artists
have constructed, contested, or otherwise responded to alternative forms of
sexuality from the late 19th century to the present. 

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         "Arab and Coming Out in Art That Speaks Up"
New York Times - January 12, 2018
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