Caption: Jasmyn Belcher speaking with Sama Alshaibi, Credit: Kate Percival
Image by: Kate Percival 
Jasmyn Belcher speaking with Sama Alshaibi 

Interview: Iraqi/Palestinian Artist Speaks About Her Life and Work

From: WRVO
Length: 11:20

Sama Alshaibi is an artist of Iraqi and Palestinian descent who uses photography, video and performance to evoke the language of displacement and loss. Read the full description.

100_0253_small Sama Alshaibi is an artist of Iraqi and Palestinian descent who uses photography, video and performance to evoke the language of displacement and loss.

Alshaibi is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Arizona and is currently finishing up her artist residency in Syracuse.

While giving a lecture at SUNY Oswego, she stopped by our studios and spoke with WRVO's Jasmyn Belcher about her so-called "hybrid identity" and how her experiences have shaped her work.

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Sama Alshaibi is an artist of Iraqi and Palestinian descent who uses photography, video and performance to evoke the language of displacement and loss.

Alshaibi is an Assistant Professor of Photography at the University of Arizona and is currently finishing up her artist residency in Syracuse.

While giving a lecture at SUNY Oswego, she stopped by our studios and spoke with WRVO's Jasmyn Belcher about her so-called "hybrid identity" and how her experiences have shaped her work.

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