https://alyaosman.com Alya Osman Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:46:02 +0000 https://alyaosman.com en https://alyaosman.com/Home Tue, 29 Mar 2022 09:59:44 +0000 Alya Osman https://alyaosman.com/Home Alya is a researcher, artist, and aspiring educator from Cairo who is deeply invested in the heart of things. Centering the MENA and its diasporas, her work focuses on urbanism, labor, collective memory, and migration. She is currently based in New York. Contact <img width="1157" height="1446" width_o="1157" height_o="1446" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b297def5d266a2693ad3eabab6fe681c514599024c267354d4a73e0d894a0ae6/0526BA61-7961-4EF6-A790-AB5B74428A6F.JPG" data-mid="138032933" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b297def5d266a2693ad3eabab6fe681c514599024c267354d4a73e0d894a0ae6/0526BA61-7961-4EF6-A790-AB5B74428A6F.JPG" /> https://alyaosman.com/Film-Video Tue, 29 Mar 2022 09:59:46 +0000 Alya Osman https://alyaosman.com/Film-Video FILM + VIDEO cities I have known (2024) – Multimedia installationFilmmaker, PhotographerAn interactive installation examining the layered connections between urban space, labor, and nostalgia through a short film, original postcards, and handwritten poetry fragments. <img width="2880" height="1621" width_o="2880" height_o="1621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/58b5830ad446eca3ead1b5052b91b4659c10c28c805aaa456e08638eea324a8e/4.png" data-mid="240200591" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/58b5830ad446eca3ead1b5052b91b4659c10c28c805aaa456e08638eea324a8e/4.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1621" width_o="2880" height_o="1621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2f0716b891163301f89807b2ba5f92f87105ba92edf591301ed218b71bbd2d51/1.png" data-mid="240200588" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2f0716b891163301f89807b2ba5f92f87105ba92edf591301ed218b71bbd2d51/1.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1621" width_o="2880" height_o="1621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85ba8f3cd35eb3ddc4487525862f666a91dd0a26438b8dbb9e8f7eae93605bc7/5.png" data-mid="240200592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/85ba8f3cd35eb3ddc4487525862f666a91dd0a26438b8dbb9e8f7eae93605bc7/5.png" /> Ghorba (2022) – Experimental Short Director, Director of Photography, EditorA visual poem exploring intergenerational migration, memory, and exile between Cairo, New York City, and Kuwait. Official selection at the Arab American Museum’s 2023 Arab Film Festival. <img width="2880" height="1609" width_o="2880" height_o="1609" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fbbb1159291712d636762196a7472d79fbf4f12bb8e9c58e080c40cee8f01ff8/Screen-Shot-2021-11-30-at-11.30.54-PM.png" data-mid="138038740" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fbbb1159291712d636762196a7472d79fbf4f12bb8e9c58e080c40cee8f01ff8/Screen-Shot-2021-11-30-at-11.30.54-PM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1621" width_o="2880" height_o="1621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c750b190da8e073f17b5bfbb5e306f9d0494e445282fa507957fc02ee96dab9/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.09.26-PM.png" data-mid="138042526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c750b190da8e073f17b5bfbb5e306f9d0494e445282fa507957fc02ee96dab9/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.09.26-PM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1621" width_o="2880" height_o="1621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/806a48e1e9792bef0e5720b9dc78f39e49c1200df8512a9b5fdb96a8de5430c4/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.07.30-PM.png" data-mid="138069212" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/806a48e1e9792bef0e5720b9dc78f39e49c1200df8512a9b5fdb96a8de5430c4/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.07.30-PM.png" /> Pai Gow (2022) – Video Art and Sound/Music InstallationVideo Editor An art piece by Hashel Al-Lamki exploring the connections between multiple spaces - commerce and commodification, body and mind, media and the social world. Commissioned by and presented at the 16th Lyon Biennale. <img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9f783e23874f29743b305dd2b6a06d51b536da9fc13126ff88d272c1bca7e834/tabariartspace-hashel-al-lamki-pai-gow-2022.jpg" data-mid="169303265" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9f783e23874f29743b305dd2b6a06d51b536da9fc13126ff88d272c1bca7e834/tabariartspace-hashel-al-lamki-pai-gow-2022.jpg" /> Mawtin (2022, forthcoming) – Documentary Short Director, Director of Photography, Editor A young Palestinian woman born and raised in Jordan reflects on notions of mobility, nationalism, art, and collective memory in the Palestinian context. <img width="2880" height="1616" width_o="2880" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a55f8393ae7c7c07ce2930ed3cd4ac60f26dbc268328768cf4ccb6d714fc15b5/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.03.33-PM.png" data-mid="138043459" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a55f8393ae7c7c07ce2930ed3cd4ac60f26dbc268328768cf4ccb6d714fc15b5/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.03.33-PM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1621" width_o="2880" height_o="1621" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca10a705f973feed8026734a270e57f31c24f97fccf3e745ee81dce19fb3bace/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.14.11-PM.png" data-mid="138043463" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca10a705f973feed8026734a270e57f31c24f97fccf3e745ee81dce19fb3bace/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.14.11-PM.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1624" width_o="2880" height_o="1624" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/53643f536979bc808639c09bc99b838c018f5ea6f2238c552c3c1bdf6507ca4e/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.16.22-PM.png" data-mid="138043465" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/53643f536979bc808639c09bc99b838c018f5ea6f2238c552c3c1bdf6507ca4e/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-6.16.22-PM.png" /> My Love and My Heart (2021) – Experimental Short Director, Director of Photography, EditorAn abstract film examining nation-building and the collective memory of violence. <img width="2582" height="1360" width_o="2582" height_o="1360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f87a34497e22c2de8ec910e33af8da36af66a1f00167229428ebb44b46f93e1d/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.48.06-PM.png" data-mid="138039344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f87a34497e22c2de8ec910e33af8da36af66a1f00167229428ebb44b46f93e1d/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.48.06-PM.png" /> <img width="2576" height="1360" width_o="2576" height_o="1360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/caaef9106c3f4f8ad628e9ae166d7daafe9f71c8896a4a5a54ac302ca5641c65/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.49.05-PM.png" data-mid="138039383" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/caaef9106c3f4f8ad628e9ae166d7daafe9f71c8896a4a5a54ac302ca5641c65/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.49.05-PM.png" /> <img width="2569" height="1368" width_o="2569" height_o="1368" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/357145165729c34a20aaf491466125dcaa316c6f583eeeebbffb91b72025dcc0/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.48.50-PM.png" data-mid="138069314" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/357145165729c34a20aaf491466125dcaa316c6f583eeeebbffb91b72025dcc0/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.48.50-PM.png" /> Ghair (dir. Kaashif Hajee, 2021) – Narrative Short Director of Photography, Colorist <img width="1080" height="616" width_o="1080" height_o="616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9154718b69a4659c6af0e22abbdc0d715a217bf30335f4b634b50a07165b925b/178097463_219187449977458_6867881147394970950_n.jpg" data-mid="138038341" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9154718b69a4659c6af0e22abbdc0d715a217bf30335f4b634b50a07165b925b/178097463_219187449977458_6867881147394970950_n.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="616" width_o="1080" height_o="616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec1b0b8b16357412e0c6fc8c3fd2538f8e7127441f3923af0fd232082c2f642b/177012713_307612910720560_8762971561915752084_n.jpg" data-mid="138038330" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec1b0b8b16357412e0c6fc8c3fd2538f8e7127441f3923af0fd232082c2f642b/177012713_307612910720560_8762971561915752084_n.jpg" /> <img width="1080" height="619" width_o="1080" height_o="619" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3d5d8470c0ef01c5835f8ef2e06f5be8ee56c5d95d975a59f977d6f3d4026be1/174265363_1125686407918118_7556415845113900589_n.jpg" data-mid="138038349" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3d5d8470c0ef01c5835f8ef2e06f5be8ee56c5d95d975a59f977d6f3d4026be1/174265363_1125686407918118_7556415845113900589_n.jpg" /> Zahra (dir. Joanne Abbassi, 2020) – Narrative Short Director of Photography <img width="900" height="495" width_o="900" height_o="495" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a169a0cb3f09a98bf924f245ce59e260cd85d243ce25abbd1a16fd932d8c5323/95849906_782992095560120_4371450111474596096_n.jpg" data-mid="138039760" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/a169a0cb3f09a98bf924f245ce59e260cd85d243ce25abbd1a16fd932d8c5323/95849906_782992095560120_4371450111474596096_n.jpg" /> <img width="897" height="494" width_o="897" height_o="494" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/842852f0afdc2fbfdf3b79b444a0f41669029c83b035bba32d82d4bacf31617d/96126300_2928858610543412_6502644948710674795_n.jpg" data-mid="138039770" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/897/i/842852f0afdc2fbfdf3b79b444a0f41669029c83b035bba32d82d4bacf31617d/96126300_2928858610543412_6502644948710674795_n.jpg" /> <img width="889" height="491" width_o="889" height_o="491" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f07d52fe986e74bfa4c5c5a2febf802aa5d3056e255c46c03d73d0759ae0d3c/96812544_143289707302906_545489778983644235_n.jpg" data-mid="138039776" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/889/i/5f07d52fe986e74bfa4c5c5a2febf802aa5d3056e255c46c03d73d0759ae0d3c/96812544_143289707302906_545489778983644235_n.jpg" /> How We Leave (dir. Liene Magdalena, 2020) – Narrative Short Director of Photography <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a914c8d1b39371f4c26c436c56dd5a7cde259c0c7c53a8e216041e6834ba9db0/Girls_Beginning.png" data-mid="138035810" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a914c8d1b39371f4c26c436c56dd5a7cde259c0c7c53a8e216041e6834ba9db0/Girls_Beginning.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/643982360c431c65294dc2e51ae803f209ef9c93fc166b32356f3ed8381c8bf5/Silhoutte.png" data-mid="138037645" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/643982360c431c65294dc2e51ae803f209ef9c93fc166b32356f3ed8381c8bf5/Silhoutte.png" /> <img width="3840" height="2160" width_o="3840" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/800cee9dd1e7c8edfdc7683cf7b88853f375d84d17b6142a17305ec4785cc92c/Portrait_Girls.png" data-mid="138035752" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/800cee9dd1e7c8edfdc7683cf7b88853f375d84d17b6142a17305ec4785cc92c/Portrait_Girls.png" /> A Conversation with Amina in 307 (2020) – Documentary Short Director, Director of Photography, EditorAn interview with young Egyptian artist Amina Yahia on painting, the female form, and finding your creative voice. Published in Unootha Magazine’s ‘Locations and Spaces’ issue. <img width="2802" height="1568" width_o="2802" height_o="1568" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ddfbfb9f1d0775fd46b6c1b950feb19ceb65de3716136fe43c9bbeb0ba69d26/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.56.32-PM-1.png" data-mid="138040926" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ddfbfb9f1d0775fd46b6c1b950feb19ceb65de3716136fe43c9bbeb0ba69d26/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.56.32-PM-1.png" /> <img width="2799" height="1570" width_o="2799" height_o="1570" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c60ab2c271e20ffbf06e2ed47bf2cc74a7de1d6172d07bb0bb77fc09f1b64371/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.55.34-PM.png" data-mid="138041011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c60ab2c271e20ffbf06e2ed47bf2cc74a7de1d6172d07bb0bb77fc09f1b64371/Screen-Shot-2022-03-30-at-5.55.34-PM.png" /> https://alyaosman.com/Research Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:38:07 +0000 Alya Osman https://alyaosman.com/Research RESEARCH Toponymy and Global Solidarity (ongoing) Creative mapping projectA database, map, and historical archive of street and square names reflecting political solidarities and alliances across the Global South. Anatomy of Revolution (ongoing) Multimedia projectA multimedia website and interactive installation by interdisciplinary artist Lara Baladi,&nbsp;selected for IDFA Forum 2025. I contributed to the project as a Research Assistant throughout 2023. Occupation and the Road Not Traveled in Susan Youssef’s Habibi Rasak Kharban (2022) Research Paper, Inquiries JournalThis paper examines Susan Youssef’s 2011 film Habibi Rasak Kharban as an adaptation of the Arabic folk tale Layla and Majnun, focusing on the film’s intertextual criticism of the dehumanizing nature of occupation. Egypt’s Migrants in the Gulf (2021) Oral History ExhbitionBetween June-August 2021, I curated and conducted 10 interviews with Egyptian migrants to GCC countries for the Canada-based organization Egypt Migrations. The final exhibit can be viewed on their website. Selected unpublished work (contact for access) Sociology + AnthropologyCemeteries and the Spatial Politics of Death in Contemporary Cairo“The Whole World Will Remember”: Narrative, Nuance, and the Politics of Remembrance in the 9/11 MuseumDomestic Labour Visa Policies and their Social Impact: Comparing the UK and KuwaitVisuality of Power: Imagery of the Arab Leader from 1981-2011Film + LiteratureNizar Qabbani’s 1967 Letter to Gamal Abdel Nasser: Articulating Arabism in the Wake of the NaksaEthnicity, Nationality and Power in Benyamin’s Goat DaysFinding ‘Reality’: Memory, Subjectivity, and Human Nature in Calvino’s Invisible CitiesDelineation and the Myth of Equality in La HaineMoney, Marriage, and Machismo: Precepts of Masculinity in Al-Makhdu’un and Bas ya Bahar https://alyaosman.com/Photography Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:11:24 +0000 Alya Osman https://alyaosman.com/Photography PHOTOGRAPHY <img width="3456" height="4608" width_o="3456" height_o="4608" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a478771fb6286685d86f2b3557fd36387fef906b6d4eb15e5b5900494e2c0fd/PST00049.JPG" data-mid="138073890" border="0" alt="Tala in Central Park West (2021)" data-caption="Tala in Central Park West (2021)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a478771fb6286685d86f2b3557fd36387fef906b6d4eb15e5b5900494e2c0fd/PST00049.JPG" /> <img width="1193" height="780" width_o="1193" height_o="780" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5161db76385fb548389c91a446b420da4d6517c34753304e3ac237aad918d6d/tumblr_ojctrfZFJr1slhkffo1_1280.png" data-mid="138073254" border="0" alt="&lsquo;Asr (2017)" data-caption="‘Asr (2017)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b5161db76385fb548389c91a446b420da4d6517c34753304e3ac237aad918d6d/tumblr_ojctrfZFJr1slhkffo1_1280.png" /> <img width="1080" height="1350" width_o="1080" height_o="1350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/749a4785720def6543c535c860017e1399f8fca2e20cac484f18184fb3ebb143/82729815_829614177461215_7065902105751595018_n.jpg" data-mid="138075825" border="0" alt="Mish on the Northern Line (2020)" data-caption="Mish on the Northern Line (2020)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/749a4785720def6543c535c860017e1399f8fca2e20cac484f18184fb3ebb143/82729815_829614177461215_7065902105751595018_n.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="842" width_o="1280" height_o="842" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b47078951315c94044bd89333c0f40b9b3b76bdf8e6550cb719700b65a829b1/tumblr_46a15b203dc935f198447f874fea0971_6602e649_1280.jpg" data-mid="138072982" border="0" alt="Midnight at the Festival (2017)" data-caption="Midnight at the Festival (2017)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b47078951315c94044bd89333c0f40b9b3b76bdf8e6550cb719700b65a829b1/tumblr_46a15b203dc935f198447f874fea0971_6602e649_1280.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="3090" width_o="2048" height_o="3090" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f2a1e9faf197619768037f3978d6c0c81993f9630d3a036791ce345780ece4e/001417390013.jpeg" data-mid="138074187" border="0" alt="وافدين (2020)" data-caption="وافدين (2020)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f2a1e9faf197619768037f3978d6c0c81993f9630d3a036791ce345780ece4e/001417390013.jpeg" /> <img width="4000" height="6016" width_o="4000" height_o="6016" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/682a9c56a64f3e0df319072ccbf776bf9f7493139c5fec5e8c2a77cde1d209a1/water2.jpg" data-mid="138073144" border="0" alt="Untitled (2017)" data-caption="Untitled (2017)" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/682a9c56a64f3e0df319072ccbf776bf9f7493139c5fec5e8c2a77cde1d209a1/water2.jpg" /> https://alyaosman.com/Poetry Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:46:02 +0000 Alya Osman https://alyaosman.com/Poetry POETRY Note from November&nbsp;(2024)first published in Confluence <img width="1080" height="620" width_o="1080" height_o="620" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7fbf6e26404116e818e32e06794643f72b2244e543607128ae6e1f68fe47a4e1/note-from-november.png" data-mid="240198478" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7fbf6e26404116e818e32e06794643f72b2244e543607128ae6e1f68fe47a4e1/note-from-november.png" /> Abu Dhabi Is... (2020)first published in Unootha <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48e220965d08d3420c28cc1b8174adcd6fea643a4a288937ed846cecdc817288/abudhabiis.jpeg" data-mid="240198487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48e220965d08d3420c28cc1b8174adcd6fea643a4a288937ed846cecdc817288/abudhabiis.jpeg" /> https://alyaosman.com/Dramatic-Writing Wed, 30 Mar 2022 18:02:39 +0000 Alya Osman https://alyaosman.com/Dramatic-Writing DRAMATIC WRITING Untitled (work in progress) Television pilot script for an original half-hour show following a group of Muslim international college students in New York City. Quarterfinalist in the ScreenCraft 2022 Comedy Competition.Nashwa (2022) A short film following a young working-class Egyptian woman’s physical and spiritual journey to Queens, NY. Top Coat (2021)A silent day-in-the-life short film centered on a manicurist in Greater Cairo.Gâteau (2021)A short play examining class and childbearing through the eyes of a young couple at a dinner party. Tiin Shoky/Prickly Pear (2020)A short film examining intergenerational migration and a strained grandmother/granddaughter relationship.