Oraib Toukan
Adjunct Lecturer
Oraib Toukan is Adjunct Lecturer at Georgetown University in Qatar for Fall, 2025. She is an artist, writer, and educator. She is currently a Europe in the Middle East/Middle East in Europe (EUME) scholar in Berlin in collaboration with the Harun Farocki Institute and the Forum Transregionale Studien, where she was twice awarded the Swiss National Research Fund fellowship for postdoctoral studies. Until 2015 she was head of the Arts Division and Media Studies Program at Bard College at Al Quds University (AQB), where she also taught at the International Art Academy in Ramallah. Toukan is author of the book Sundry Modernism: Materials for a Study of Palestinian Modernism (Sternberg Press, 2017), and the essay films Via Dolorosa (2021), Offing (2021), and When Things Occur (2017), among others. Exhibition venues include KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, Mori Art Museum, Asia Pacific Triennial, Istanbul Biennale, Heidelberger Kunstverein Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, among others. An upcoming anthology of her work (Archive Books 2025) is on the life and materiality of images from an ecological perspective. Through a diverse body of work that probes photography, film, and text, she has been exploring alternative, native, and vernacular understandings of images, often drawing from the rich lexicon of the Arabic language. Toukan completed her Ph.D. in 2019 at the University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Art under a Clarendon fellowship.