Alia Al-Sabi
Ph.D. Candidate
Alia Al-Sabi is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn, New York. Currently she is a PhD Candidate in the Performance Studies department at NYU, where she researches theories of movement and subversion within logics of surveillance and confinement. Her dissertation studies a prisoners’ archive located in various parts of the West Bank and records the writing and annotative practices of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement in the 70s and 80s. She has contributed writings to Building Sharjah, Skin Deep, Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia, Canvas Magazine, Bidoun Magazine, Al Manakh Gulf Continued, among other publications.
Why PS @ NYU?
It feels like a good place to make connections between the seemingly unrelated things of life.
Education
New York University
Ph.D. Candidate - Performance Studies
New York, New York
Whitney Independent Study Program
Helena Rubenstein Fellow in Critical Studies
New York, New York
California College of the Arts
Master of Arts - Curatorial Practice
San Francisco, California
American University of Sharjah
Bachelor of Architecture
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Awards & Distinctions
• 2020 Corrigan Fellowship | NYU Performance Studies
• 2018 1st Orbitals curatorial trip with Mophradat | Mexico City, Mexico
• 2017 Helena Rubenstein Fellowship | Whitney Independent Study Program
• 2015 All College Honors Scholarship Award (Critical/Non-Fiction Writing Category) | California College of the Arts
• 2013 President’s International Scholarship Award | California College of the Arts
• 2013 Forum Fellow in Translation Program | Global Art Forum, Art Dubai
• 2013 Curatorial Fellow | Campus Art Dubai
• 2012 Writing Fellow at Translations Residency | L’ecole de Literature, Lagrasse, France