داليا

Dalia is an Iraqi-British freelance journalist, editor, host, copywriter and producer based in London. She is mostly interested in writing and commissioning stories on emerging creativity from the SWANA region and diaspora, migrant narratives, and reporting on community-led stories from the margins.

She’s worked with Nike, Ugg, Converse, Dazed, TATE Galleries, Sole DXB, The New York Times, BFI, the Barbican, Browns, The Edinburgh International Film Festival, London Migration Film Festival, Refugee Week, The Photographer’s Gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich and more.

Dalia is the founder of The Road to Nowhere, as seen in Dazed, GQ Middle East, Port and It’s Nice That. TRTN is a magazine and digital platform showcasing new creative and cultural writing, art, and photography about second-generation immigrants, diaspora, and migration narratives. Its intention is to celebrate and scrutinise the global nature of our communities and what identity really constitutes.

Charity work includes tutoring refugees at Paper Airplanes, volunteering with The Felix Project, and raising money for Health In Mind, Restless Beings, Counterpoints, Gaza Library, the IRC and others. She was also a Migrant Aspiration Programme mentor at The Migrant Rights Network.