Omar Kholeif (Egypt/UK) is a curator, writer and editor. Most recently, he was Curator at FACT, Liverpool, the UK's national centre for film and new media, and carries on as senior curatorial associate. He is also a Visiting Curator at Cornerhouse, Manchester, Curator at the Arab British Centre, London and founding Director of the UK's Arab Film Festival - a touring programme, which occurs annually. He is a Curator for the Abandon Normal Devices Festival, formerly a Curator for the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Impakt Festival in the Netherlands, and Werkleitz Festival, among others. Kholeif has curated projects and events, which have occurred at the Whitechapel Gallery, London; ICA, London; The International Film Festival Rotterdam; 'Beirut' in Cairo, Rhizome, New York, and Art Dubai, to name but a few.
Omar regularly writes for the international arts and culture press and is Senior Editor and Curator of Ibraaz Publishing (www.ibraaz.org) – the leading critical forum for visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. Omar was a co-founding editor of Portal 9, a semi-annual journal of art, literature, and architecture, published in Beirut, Lebanon. As of 2013, Kholeif will co-direct the residency and media programme for SPACE, London and its new cultural centre, The White Building (www.thewhitebuilding.org.uk).
He can be reached through his site www.everythingok.co.uk.
Omar regularly writes for the international arts and culture press and is Senior Editor and Curator of Ibraaz Publishing (www.ibraaz.org) – the leading critical forum for visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. Omar was a co-founding editor of Portal 9, a semi-annual journal of art, literature, and architecture, published in Beirut, Lebanon. As of 2013, Kholeif will co-direct the residency and media programme for SPACE, London and its new cultural centre, The White Building (www.thewhitebuilding.org.uk).
He can be reached through his site www.everythingok.co.uk.
