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Exile and migration, queerness and intimacy, colonial histories and their afterlives, health and the body, archives and memory. I am drawn to stories at the margins — where displacement, queerness, and survival intersect. My work examines how bodies carry history, how intimacy resists control, and how memory unsettles official narratives. I seek forms that blur boundaries between art and activism, personal and political, past and future.
Country: Egypt
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Ahmed Awadalla, (b. 1985, Egypt) is a writer, historian, and transdisciplinary artist based between Berlin and Glasgow. Their work spans text, performance, and visual storytelling, reimagining knowledge production through queer and decolonial methodologies. Grounded in research, storytelling, and the fluid interplay of memory, embodiment, and experience, Awadalla’s practice explores how histories converge, how narratives take shape through the body, and how power is inscribed in the ways we remember and forget. Their writing has appeared in media publications, anthologies, and academic journals, while their award-winning debut film, Queer Exile, has been showcased at esteemed film festivals worldwide.
After fleeing Egypt’s revolution, an exiled activist seeks safety in Berlin. Instead, he’s placed in...
