Alia Al-Sabi

Ph.D. Candidate

Alia Al-Sabi

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 ArabiaCanvas MagazineBidoun 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