Nancy+Kibbi

Roula Haj-Ismail is her name. Fragmenting Folktales is her game. She was born out of a strange union between 1/3 Circasian, 1/3 Palestinian, 1/3 Syrian and a 3/3 Lebanese, and bred in the land Down Under. Her fate was/is fragmentation at its best and worst. She’s a part-time teacher, part-time DJ, part-time Aussie, part-time freedom fighter, part-time artist, part-time mother. The best of all worlds and at the same time nowhere at all. Rola says that this fragmentation is the ‘meat’ of her work. It is the playful fascination of the continuous dissolution of one part of her body and the resurrection of another part. The Tabouli Performer is a celebration of this bodily fragmentation. It is a performance/Installation piece that began in 1996 in Copenhagen at the Update Art Festival and by 2008 had worked its way into the heart of the Arts Festival in Dubai. The Tabouli Performer is one of the tastiest performances you will ever see. It weaves a tale of womanhood, motherhood, division, and borders on the geography of the land that I inhabit.
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Teacher / PYP coordinator / PYP trainer / performance artist /student / mother.

Graduate Student in [|__Media and Communications__] from the “European Graduate School (EGS)”.
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