The author is one of the co-founders of NAWARA, a Berlin-based grassroots process-oriented collective of migrant artists, activists and researchers with ties to the NAWA region and committed to an intersectional queer-feminist praxis.
On January 25th, 2011 protests broke out in Cairo that led to the toppling of then president Hosni Mubarak and that wrote history as part of the Arab Sping. A founding member of Nawara on the commemoration ten years later in exile.