Talks

Shining Lights Symposium, speaker; hosted by Joy Gregory | The V&A

Home from Home talk with Heba Tabidi for AZEEMA | The Southbank Centre

Archiving Sounds from the Maghreb and Beyond | The Zaha Hadid Foundation

Guest Lecture, Long-form Journalism | London College of Communication, UAL

Guest Lecture, Long-form Journalism | American University of Iraq-Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan

Crossing Seas in Search of Identity | Talks with Sabrina Mahfouz, Nina Manandhar, Tamara Al-Mashouk and Ali Ghaderi at the National Maritime Museum

Develop Programme: How to Become an Arts Writer | The Photographer’s Gallery

The Swimmers | Screening + Panel at the National Maritime Museum

Intergenerational Transmissions: What We Inherit – Land access, ownership and decolonising the outdoors

ACV Magazine presents Rooted in Place: In Conversation with Zakia Sewell & Marianne Keating, hosted by Dalia Al-Dujaili

The Music Journalist as Gatekeeper at Le Guess Who? Festival

The Road to Nowhere presents The Commodification of Culture at Reference Point 180

Riposte presents Watching Women and Girls & Poor Little Sick Girls at The Standard

The Road to Nowhere presents: Finding Home, Forging Identity at the Barbican

BRICKS Magazine Talks: The Anxieties and Accessibility of Networking with Jyni Ong, Kaiya Waera & Sonya Barlow

T A P E Collective BWAYRF? Panel at the Barbican

London Migration Film Festival: Revolution from Afar Q+A Panel with Wald Brown

New Currency x Reference Point 180: A Cultural Symposium with Dazed, AZEEMA, Aezelia & others

T A P E Collective BWAYRF? Panel at Kino Bermondsey


Workshops

Community Zine making – TRTN x Refuge Worldwide at Oona Bar

Visual Heritage workshops at The Barbican Late

Visions x The Road to Nowhere at Bow Arts: Show and Tell from the diaspora

TATE Collective at TATE Britain: Zine-making with AZEEMA

T A P E Collective at the Barbican: Identity Creative Writing Workshop


Podcasts + Radio

Open Culture: No Borders - Panel Discussion - Voices Radio

Young Iraqis turn to rap after the war to express trauma, dissent and protest on NPR’s Morning Edition with Leila Fadel

BRICKS Magazine Podcast: Season 2, hosted by Dalia Al-Dujaili (guests; Hidhir Badaruddin, Simone Murphy, Brett & Scott Staniland, Rachelle Cox, Sophie Sandberg, Amon Kale, Karishma Porwal, Alicia Sun)


Events + Production

Events series for ACV ‘Traditions’ issue: Traditions of the plate with Ayesha Erkin; Traditions of the cloth with Korka-Ora Alifa and Serag Elmeleigy; Traditions of sound systems.

In A Place Where We Belong / in Dazed Magazine

Nike Swim x AZEEMA (2022)

Baesianz Makers Market x The Road to Nowhere at Bow Arts

‘What Lies Beneath’ AZEEMA x VIBE short film for ‘ACTIVE ACTIVISM ACT’ at Elisava Research Institute, Barcelona

TATE Lates: Lubaini Himid x AZEEMA


Publications

In Conversation with Joy Gregory, in Tate Dialogues for The 80s: Photographing Britain / contributor, published by Tate, 2024

Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music / cont ed. published by The British Library, 2024

An Archive of Love / cont ed. published by Middle East Archive