Creative Facilitator
+ Educator
+ Wellness Practitioner
Textile Arts & Storytelling
A hands-on tatreez and textile workshop that treats Palestinian embroidery as a living archive — a way of holding memory, identity, and resistance in the stitch. Participants learn foundational cross-stitch technique while working through the symbolism and regional patterning of tatreez, using the needle as an entry point into conversations about cultural continuity, displacement, and craft as testimony.
Taught at:
Arab American National Museum, Stitch-In for Palestine (recurring)
Neighborhood Art School Detroit ('24)
University of Michigan Freedom School ('25)
Dearborn Public Library, general Arabic cross-stitch embroidery course ('26)
Fiction + Creative Non-Fiction Writing
A workshop guiding small groups of students through fast-paced creative writing exercises and reading discussions, designed to build confidence in personal writing voice and surface the contradictions embedded in participants' daily lives and surrounding society. Sessions blend generative writing prompts with close reading and discussion, often oriented toward producing new material for a student publication.
Taught at:
American University of Kuwait, in partnership with Fikir student journal (Fall 2014, ~8 students) — download the assigned readings →
Q8 Bookstore (Winter 2014)
Creative Space Beirut (Fall 2013)
Promenade Cultural Centre — "Letters to the Future," an age-tiered pandemic-reflection writing workshop (ages 7–15) inviting participants to process isolation and change through guided prompts and letters addressed to future generations ('21)
IN-DIG-GO Children’s Workshops
A children's STEAM curriculum developed for Nuqat's In.dig.go program in Kuwait, sponsored by Zain Telecom, blending making, storytelling, and hands-on experimentation to introduce young learners to science and design thinking through an arts-based lens. Sessions were built for facilitators across Nuqat's public programming, with an emphasis on age-appropriate delivery and consistency across contributing teaching artists.
Taught at:
Nuqat, Kuwait — curriculum design & public workshop program ('14–'19)
