nizarari@yorku.ca
Nassim Abu Sarari is pursuing a PhD in Art History and Visual Culture at 91ɫ. Working across critical theory, performing arts, visual culture, Islamic, and African studies, his research investigates Afro-Arab aesthetics, Afro-Asian solidarities, and colonial and postcolonial archives across historical and contemporary contexts. He holds an MA in Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies from 91ɫ, where his thesis, “Staging Sovereignty: Sudanese Theatre and the Possibility of Arabo-African Modernity, 1880–1930” (2024), examined the convergence of African, Arab, and Islamic cultural forms in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. His work centres on non-Western modernities, social and racial justice, continental African histories, and global Black cultures across Southwest Asia and North and East Africa.
Keywords: Islam in Africa, Afro-Arab, Visual Culture, Art, Politics, Philosophy, Aesthetics