LIANE AL GHUSAIN
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About

Hello! I am a writer and teacher with a focus on communication, creativity and culture, based in Kuwait.

I am also a tarot reader and yoga teacher.

[current work]

lead copywriter at The Scribes
content development and writing at Nuqat
yoga teacher at C Club

[attended] 

Stanford University for BA and MA in English literature & creative writing 2005-10

Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program for postgraduate work in art, technology, and performance 2012-13

[previously] 

adjunct English instructor at GUST
Art Dubai Forum Fellow 2015
co-wrote Muneera, a film for the Kuwait pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennial 2014
served as the director of Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait during its inaugural year 2011-12
interned at the Wikimedia Foundation communications department in 2010

[taught writing workshops at]

Nuqat, Kuwait
Fikir, American University of Kuwait
the spring sessions, Amman
q8bookstore, Kuwait
The Creative Space, Beirut 

[publications include] 

- Nothing to Write Home About, Minrasy Projects / Editor


- Abdul Rahman, a multimedia short story publication 
produced with the support of Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program and found online at Gate 37 / Writer


- "Public Diversions" in Portal 9 Journal / Writer & Producer

[features]

Bazaar Magazine / "Liane Learns Life"

You can reach me at liane.alghusain@gmail.com for collaboration requests, or at liane@thescribes.me for copywriting requests.


Liane Al Ghusain (b. 1987 Kuwait) is a Palestinian-Kuwaiti artist and writer who lives and works outside of Detroit, Michigan. The overarching themes of her work pertain to the experience of being a Palestinian in diaspora and integrating spirituality and feminism into contemporary life. A conceptual, multi-media artist, she creates installations that collate video, performance, text, embroidery, and sculpture.

She received her MFA in Art & Media from New York University Abu Dhabi (2023) and completed a co-terminal BA (2009) and MA (2010) in English from Stanford University, with a focus on creative writing and interdisciplinary honors in feminist studies. She also has completed postgraduate studies at the Ashkal Alwan Home Workspace Program in Beirut, Lebanon. 

Liane has shown her artwork in Abu Dhabi (421, Abu Dhabi Art); Amsterdam (Framer Framed); Dubai (Art Dubai, NIKA Project Space, Bayt Mamzar, The Mine Gallery); Grand Rapids, Michigan (Art Prize); and Kuwait City (The Object Salon) as well as in online exhibitions, recently completing residencies at the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah, Palestine and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.

Liane has been awarded various grants, prizes, residencies and fellowships, including scholarships and research grants from Stanford University, New York University Abu Dhabi, and the Kuwait Culture Office. She has published writing in a wide range of international publications such as Adi Magazine (US), Berlin Quarterly (Germany), The Outpost (Lebanon) and WTD magazine (UAE), and performed as a speaker/mentor to several non-profit organizations such as the House of Beautiful Business (Portugal) and en.v for social good (Kuwait). She was the first director of the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP Kuwait) and founded The Scribes, a boutique copywriting agency; she has worked as an artist, writer, culture/education consultant, and yoga & meditation teacher. 

[press]

Arab News / “THE BREAKDOWN: Liane Al-Ghusain discusses her conceptual work ‘Womb Amulets’ ”
Nafas Art Magazine / “In Process : In Progress”
Jumeirah Magazine / “The Insiders’ Guide to Kuwait”
Bazaar Magazine / "Liane Learns Life"
Bazaar Magazine / “Two Writers and a Nuqat Workshop”
Framers Framed / “Crisis of History”
Art Forum / “Home Makeover”

photo credit: Vivi Zhu