Mezna Qato
What we wrote when Mezna took part in Episode 11, 2024:
Mezna Qato is a historian, writer, and organiser based between Cambridge, Chicago, and Tulkarm. Her work is primarily concerned with histories, lives, and movements of refugee and exiled communities. Her writing on archives, education, dispossession and destruction appears in journals, blogs, zines, letters, placards, emails, and post-it notes. She is co-convenor of the ‘Archives of the Disappeared’ Network, is a member of Librarians and Archivists with Palestine, the US Palestinian Community Network, British Palestinian Committee, and other formations, visible and not so visible. Her collaborative artistic work has been shown in Venice, New York, Liverpool, Bergen, Ramallah and Amman.

Artist Events

When my heart looks for you, where will it find you?
Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato Sakina Ali
A workshop inviting participants to enact a series of scores that explore witnessing, testimony, grief and mourning, facilitated by Mezna and Sadia, and accompanied by Sakina Ali.

Bring a Witness
Sadia Shirazi Mezna Qato
Sadia Shirazi & Mezna Qato will discuss a series of scores that explore the texture and landscape of exile, resistance, and Muslim sociality. These instructional scores trouble the idea that art and activism are untouched by faith and faith is untouched by art and activism.