Najwa Ahmed
Najwa Ahmed (1989): Is a conceptual, visual, land artist and a writer. born, born in Palestine and based in Berlin since 2 years, after what seems like an endless odyssey in the asylum process. Through their theater work "not mine and other stories” with KAAI studios in Brussels, they tackled issues of displacement and white saviourism, while in "where do we land now?” With Transfo/Collect they worked with collective memory as home to people from refugee/migration backgrounds. In their short films such as "Ready-made bodies", "silence" and "Zehra on the roof” they worked with queer identity politics and the consumption culture of bodies. While In their land art they delve into the changing but rooted connection in between nature and humans, a connection that’s being endangered due to our human ego, power lust and idiocy.
But In their writing and performance such as "the watermelon resistance”, "how dance moves my gender euphoria” Najwa takes a personal step within and revisits the preconditioning they went through in regards to their sexual identity and queerness, sometimes only to reflect and sometimes to deconstruct.
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the Brethren of purity is a mysterious group of scholars that's speculated to be founded between the 9-10 century in present day Iraq. Their importance stems from the ideas they expressed through their anonymous letters that were opposing to their social and political environment at the time.