Author: Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa, Literary Editor at The Markaz Review, is editing the anthology Woman Life Freedom, Voices and Art from the Women’s Protests in Iran, to be published by Saqi Books, September 2023. She curated Transit Tehran in London: Art and Documentary from Iran, the Atrium Gallery, London School of Economics, 2009; and Culture in Defiance: Continuing Traditions of Satire, Art and the Struggle for Freedom in Syria, the Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012. This exhibition toured and was shown in Rich Mix, in London, as part of the 2013 Shubbak Festival; and at the Rundetårn, Copenhagen. Malu was the gofer for Syrian graffiti artists, in the Victorian & Albert Museum’s exhibition Disobedient Objects, 2015. She participated in Nope to Hope:Graphic and Politics 2008–18, London’s Design Museum, an exhibition that was taken down off museum walls by the artists and participants, after the Design Museum held a reception at the exhibition for the UK arms trade. She worked with Venetia Porter at the British Museum to bring Syrian artists and their work to the museum’s permanent collection. She is currently working on an anthology of writing, art and photography from the women’s protests in Iran.