Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus: Remembering the Roberts on St David’s Day
This year on St David’s Day, my great-aunt planted daffodils on the graves of our Welsh ancestors, a ritual she has repeated since 1989.
Dreaming an Archive | Nahalmo b archeev
Exploring ways of reimagining remembrance and challenging notions of what an archive can be
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Counter-Archiving; Dreaming With Melissa Farah-Arras
Looking back with gratitude to a dreamy residency me and my beautiful friend Melissa Farah-Arras shared last summer thanks to SPILL Festival. From the softness of a physical and spiritual cocoon we lovingly built together, we followed threads back to ourselves and our ancestors. We placed our ideas and shared archives into an incubator, and have both watched as these have followed us into the…
37 Turns at Love; A Love Reserved for You
I took a long hike on my own this month to honour the crossing over into my 37th year of life on this earth.
In the House of Our Saint: Memory, Ruin, and Return
Earlier in the year I wrote about the discovery of our ancestor Sidi Sayed Ahmed Belabes, a sufi saint and scholar who founded a school in the 1800s, which also became a stronghold of early French Resistance.
Couscous Gamaz: Displaced Foodways and the Unmaking of Pot-au-Feu Arabe
Couscous is so integral to North African society that it’s often simply called ta’am – food.
Algerian Women’s Resistance and Internal Hijra
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Threads of Resistance: Carrying the Legacy of the Algerian Burnoos
O you who are cloaked, arise and remind - Surah Al‑Muddaththir (74:1–2)
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Sonics of Home: Music From the Welsh Mines, Paul Robeson and Taos Amrouche
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