Rasha Salti is an independent curator and free-lance writer, working and living between Beirut and New York City. She is a guest curator of tm.10 Film & Video Programme.
Rasha Salti is an independent curator and free-lance writer, working and living between Beirut and New York City. She is also the creative director of the New York based non-profit ArteEast (www.arteeast.org). She has administered a number of events, including a tribute to Edward Said titled For a Critical Culture (Beirut, 1997), and 50, Nakba and Resistance (Beirut, 1998), a three months long cultural season for the fiftieth commemoration of the tragedy of Palestine, titled. In 2006, she curated a retrospective of Syrian cinema, that toured worldwide and on that occasion edited Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays and Conversations with Filmmakers (ArteEast and Rattapallax Press). In 2009, she co-curated ArabShorts.
Salti writes about artistic practice in the Arab world, film, and general social and political commentary, in Arabic and English, in The Jerusalem Quarterly Report (Palestine), Naqd (Algeria), MERIP (USA), The London Review of Books (UK), Afterall (US). In 2009, she collaborated with photographer Ziad Antar on an exhibition and book titled Beirut Bereft, The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict.