Lamia Abukhadra is the Art and Communications Director at Mizna, where she works to put filmmakers, writers, artists, and thinkers in critical dialogue with one another through programming and language that reflects the social realities of the Arab/SWANA region and beyond.

In addition to her work at Mizna, Lamia is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice studies how disasters can resurrect and generate new forms of perception, collectivity, and resistance.

Lamia graduated from the University of Minnesota with a BFA in interdisciplinary studio art in 2018 and is a 2019-2020 Home Workspace Program Fellow at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut as well as a 2021-2022 Jan van Eyck Academie Resident in Maastricht, NL.