LIANE AL GHUSAIN

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.


Hello!

I am a Palestinian-Kuwaiti artist & writer currently enrolled in the Master of Fine Art in Art & Media at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD).

I work primarily as a textile artist experimenting with a number of forms including video, sculpture, and text. My main research interests are in the fields of mysticism, feminism, post-colonialism, and science fiction.

[positions held] 

[education] 

Stanford University | BA and MA in English literature & creative writing | interdisciplinary honors in Feminist Studies

New York University | MFA in Art & media

[press]

Arab News / “THE BREAKDOWN: Liane Al-Ghusain discusses her conceptual work ‘Womb Amulets’ ”
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”
Nafas Art Magazine / “In Process : In Progress”

photo credit: Vivi Zhu