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. Basing their work with queer Muslim community in Durham, they organize 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