Shirine Saad

Shirine Saad is a Beirut-born journalist, programmer and DJ focusing on culture and social change. They recently taught six courses in Arts Journalism and Criticism at Brown University, where they were the Founding Editor of a new multimedia arts journal, MOVEMENTS. They are a PhD candidate in Philosophy, Art and Social Thought at the European Graduate School (ABD, committee: Denise Ferreira da Silva, Fred Moten, Jasbir Puar, Stefano Harney.) Their theoretical essay on Arab feminist and queer art is forthcoming at Routledge; a volume dedicated to the same topic is forthcoming at Saqi books. Saad is an Advisory Council Member at Recess Art in Brooklyn and has received a research and programming grant from Columbia University’s Incite Institute. They have worked as Interim Programming Director at music organization National Sawdust and runs the Gyal Tings! DJ learning series for BIPOC women, nonbinary and LGBTQ folks and Hiya Live Sessions, a platform for radical feminist SWANA artists. They have programmed and DJd events for Creative Time, BAM, the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Library, National Sawdust, Soho House, The Rockaway Hotel, Miss Lily’s; launched the Rockaway Beach Reggae Jam, Gyal Tings Soundsystem and Hiya.