CULTURAL & CURATORIAL
WORK
The Queer Super Diversity Podcast Show - Commissioned by Queer Is Not a Manifesto - Podcast Series: Host Editor - 2025/CurrentSyrian Tonalities - Event Series platforming Syrian Artistic Work - Founder & Programer - 2025/CurrentISSUE Magazine - Annual Publication & Pop-up Cultural Center - Founding director -2023/CurrentPam Wide Open - Queer Event series/ Cultural Outlet of Queer bar Pamela (AMS) - Initiator & Programmer - 2022/2023
LIST OF WORKS
The Queer Super Diversity Podcast Show
2024/Current - Podcast Series The Queer Superdiversity Podcast Show explores the many — often overlapping — identities we carry within ourselves. How do these different parts of us relate, influence one another, clash or harmonize? Rather than treating identity as a set of isolated labels, the podcast looks at how lived experience, culture, embodiment, desire, neurodiversity, gender and community interact in complex and sometimes unexpected ways.
Through long-form conversations and storytelling, the show examines identity not as something static but as something dynamic — formed through context, history, intimacy and imagination. Each episode invites listeners to think beyond singular narratives of “who we are” and instead approach identity as layered, relational and in motion.
EP1:
Esteemed guests Asifa Lahore, Kami Chouhdry, Nora Nord and Kaneesha Nadal in conversation with Asia Hussain and Aynouk Tan about neurodiversity, art, Hijra, having a migrant background and loads more. Created in collaboration with Mediamatic and Stichting Prisma Groep. EP2:
Esteemed guests Sheyma Rochdi, Spitler, Simomo Bouj, Nataly Ba and Abu Shhab in conversation with Justine Karamira and Aynouk Tan about ADHD, Queer Trolling, understanding blackness and leaning into the fear. Created in collaboration with No Limits Art Castle.EP3:
In conversation with writer and philosopher Simon(e) van Saarloos about their non- monogamous practice, scarcity and abundance and their new book titled Trans Despair. EP4:
Ghaith Kween Qoutainy in conversation with drag king Karagõza about political satire, middle eastern moustaches and capitalist gays. EP5:
Ghaith Kween Qoutainy in conversation with drag king Latin X Charm about community, adoption and toxic masculinity. What does it mean to be both trans and drag king?EP6:
SEX WORK REVISITED
Sex workers Levi Jacobs, GiA G. Kiki Mila and Jean Paul Paula in a rich conversation with Ghaith Kween Qoutainy discussing the politics of sex work.EP 7:
pt.2 Sex workers Levi Jacobs, GiA G. Kiki Mila and Jean Paul Paula in a rich conversation with Ghaith Kween Qoutainy discussing the politics of sex workEP8:
Ghaith Kween Qoutainy in conversation with politician Tofik Dibi about code switching, 7 October as boundary and their shared experiences as queer Arabs. 
Tofik Dibi & Ghaith Kween Qoutainy - EP 8 More Episodes are in planning ….
Syrian Tonalities
2024/Current
Founder & Programmer
Together with Yara Said/Noise Diva Amsterdam-based event series platforming Syrian artistic practices across performance, music, film, and visual arts, from with-in mother land, and Diasporic.
First Event - Mar 29 2024
Second Event - Aug 7th 2024
Third Event - Oct 16th 2024
Featuring:
Performances by:
- Ahmad Mallah & Rebecca Lillich
- Naya Aljoudi & Talal Fayad
- Osama Karkout And screenings of short films by:
- Hammam's Neighbourhood - Abdul Latif Kanan - Here…In Damascus by Souha Hassan - Fish Dance by Rama Dibi More Events are currently in Planning
ISSUE - An Archive of collective Struggle
ISSUE is a collective crafting an annual printed queer magazine, a pop-up cultural centre, and a investment in the cultural facade of Amsterdam.
Since its launch in Dec 2022, ISSUE blossomed from a DYI Riso-print matter of 72 pages, to become a space for collectivity, a much denser residue of queer expression in all forms, textual, artistic, academic, a pluralistically driven collectivity with an educational trajectory, and thicker print.
So far, we have produced two annual prints (completely sold-out), over 60 events, and became a space (a location) that offers a rent-free locale for starting and upcoming initiatives to curate their shows, hold their gatherings and meetings, and build, together with us. Next to that we hosted our own activities, which included Residencies, workshops, a reading club, a curated activist book library, and, energetically, a space charged with a futurity sourced by an educated hope.
As the Founding Director, I have led the process of building the team (Magazine team, and space team), and together with those teams worked to establish structures for our work, Artistically and Conceptually sculpting our identity (from logo, to graphics, to fonts, to content, and to the type of events programming and collaborations we curate), acquiring spaces, applying for funds, and meeting deadlines in relation to our process.
ISSUE is a completely independant and volunteer run collective from head to toe.
Printed Matter
ISSUE
[REFUSAL][RESISTANCE][SOLIDARITY]
[THE SOIL WE GROW IN]
- 2024 PRINT/DIGITAL SOLD OUTISSUE (DE)COLONIZATIONFirst Edition
Tow Editions
2023 -PRINT/DIGITALSOLD OUT
Impressions ISSUE [REFUSAL] [RESISTANCE] [SOLIDARITY] [THE SOIL WE GROW IN] - 2024
Impressions ISSUE (DE)COLONIZATION
2023
ISSUE THE BOOKS-CAFE/ ISSUE THE LIVING-ROOM
Amsterdam, NL
2023/2024Initiator & Programmer Pam Wide Open
Pam Wide Open is the cultural outlet of queer bar Pamela in Amsterdam. Launched in 2023 and is still ongoing
A selection from the program:
Designs by Samuel King
