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🤲📖We invite you to read Heba Hayek’scommission ‘How Many Times Must the Phoenix Burn? entries from the rupture’. This work was written in response to trans[*]glocal, a gathering by instrans___ ( @intrans___ ,Oct 2024, Battersea Arts Centre).The event explored alternative ecologies and futures of non-hierarchical, cooperative transmedia exchange. In this deeply reflective Hayek draws on her lived experience, navigating the words ‘here’ and ‘there’ from the perspective of a writer divided between London and Palestine during the genocide of her people.

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💫Heba Hayek is a palestinian london-based author, workshop facilitator, and communication consultant. Rooted in de-colonial and indigenous practices, Heba’s work pushes the boundaries of supremacist norms, engaging in various exploration of what lies beyond these constraints. She is committed to cultivating liberatory conditions amidst a backdrop of deep individualism and desensitization. Positioned on the other side of the Canon, Heba seeks out the stories of those who reject the limitations of traditional archives and resist imposed terms of visibility.  Heba is also a communication consultant who is passionate about projects that centre the nourishment and cultivation of working class, immigrant, queer, and global majority folk. Heba holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Miami University, Ohio, where she taught composition and rhetoric, as well as creative writing, for two years. In 2019, she moved to London to pursue a Master of Arts in Social Anthropology at SOAS University. Heba’s debut book Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies won the 2022 Palestine Book Award and was named a 2021 Book of the Year by The White Review, Middle East Eye, and The New Arab.

Image credits: Phoenix statue at Al Saha, eastern Gaza, where Heba grew up. Courtesy of Heba Hayek.

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