Updated 25 May 2025, London.
Thank you for visiting my site. This page replaces a news section, and gathers some of the things I’m currently reading, watching, and working on:
Working on
We are in the book design phase of my two projects The Iraqi Suitcase and M’s Story, with the aim of self-publishing them this year. M’s Story will also include an exhibitable component.
Reading
Correspondence, Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan
Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson
Voyage, War, Exile by Etel Adnan (recently published by Litmus Press — I had unknowingly read the essays in this volume already but they are so good I am rereading them.)
De cœur à cœur. L’œuvre de Marc Hurtado eds. Mónica Delgado and José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Abdullah Al Saadi: Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia (catalogue)
Some related videos can be found in the Inspiration section of the Diary page.
Watching
A Flood in Baath Country by Omar Amiralay (2003)
I’m Still Here by Walter Salles (2024)
On Falling by Laura Carreira (2024)
HyperNormalisation by Adam Curtis (2016)
No Bears by Jafar Panahi (2022)
A Traveler’s Needs by Hong Sang-soo (2024)
Born of the Ice by Stephanie Alton (2024)
From the Archive
I am gradually adding more writings from my archive to the Writings section, and will post new texts there, along with notes in the Diary.
Still
Meeting outdoors or virtually — living with Long Covid.
Collaborating remotely.
Not using a smartphone.
Not on social media, so this is the place to find me.
Please feel free to get in touch.
Recent Writing ON my Work
Night Light—The Modern Cine-Nocturne in Comprehending Cinema by Scott M. MacDonald (Oxford University Press, 2024)
Nabua and Other Nocturnal Peripheries by Iggy Cortez in Night Fever: Film and Photography after Dark, ed. Shanay Jhaveri (Walther König, 2024)