Rasha Salti

Rasha Salti is a curator, writer, and researcher. Her curated projects include: Past Disquiet: Narratives and Ghosts from The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2015–2016; Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s until Now (co-curated with Jytte Jensen), for the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2010–2012; 10th Sharjah Biennial (co-curated with Suzanne Cotter), Sharjah, 2011; and the retrospective of Syrian cinema The Road to Damascus (co-curated with Richard Peña), for the Film Society at Lincoln Center, 2006. Her essays have appeared in publications such as Afterall, The London Review of Books, and Naqd. She collaborated with Ziad Antar on the exhibition and publication Beirut Bereft, The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict (2009) and edited the book Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays and Conversations with Filmmakers (2006). Salti lives and works in Berlin. [Last updated 2017]