Q&A with new Duke Arts Administration Fellow Maya Ghanem
We recently interviewed Maya Ghanem, our new Arts Administration Fellow! In this Q&A Maya shares their community-driven passions, artistic work, interest in deep sea creatures, and more.
Maya (they/she) is an aspiring researcher, community builder, and artist focusing on queer Muslim solidarity. As a leader of the queer Muslim group Jummah 4 All, they organized prayer services, social events, artist workshops, scholarly talks, Ramadan dinners, and political involvement. Receiving a Bachelor of Arts from the International Comparative Studies Department at Duke, Maya wrote their honors thesis on queer Muslims and environmental futurisms, highlighting the interconnected potential to break Orientalist queer/Muslim and human/nature binaries. Maya also published an article in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal on a queer and decolonial approach to sexual ethics while analyzing Arab media. In their first art installation at VAE Raleigh, Maya explored relational subjectivity, incorporating queer and Muslim elements into make-up and photography portraits of her close friends.
We recently interviewed Maya Ghanem, our new Arts Administration Fellow! In this Q&A Maya shares their community-driven passions, artistic work, interest in deep sea creatures, and more.
maya.ghanem@duke.edu