Jumana Al-Yasiri

Jumana Al-Yasiri is a Paris-based independent arts manager, researcher, writer and translator. She has curated and implemented residencies, festivals, conferences, and artist support programs across disciplines and continents. Her numerous collaborations with key regional and international arts and culture organizations include Damascus Arab Capital of Culture 2008, the Young Arab Theatre Fund, D-CAF, Med Culture Programme, Moussem Nomadic Arts Center, Hammana Artist House, the Sundance Institute, and Ettijahat-Independent Culture. She has also contributed to several cultural policies working groups and publications, with a special focus on the representation of artists and cultural workers from the Arab region and the global south in the arts and cultural sectors. As a panelist and writer, she is particularly interested in contemporary artistic diasporas, the construction of identity in exile, postcolonial discourses in the arts, and the geopolitics of imagination. She has also dedicated a large part of her research to the life and work of Arab-American writer and painter Etel Adnan.