MEET THE TEAM!
Dr Rachel Scott
Lecturer, Researcher
Dr Rachel Scott is Lecturer in World and Hispanic Literatures at Royal Holloway, University of London and a researcher on Language Acts and Worldmaking, a flagship project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)’s Open World Research Initiative. She publishes on medieval and early modern Iberian literatures in their transnational and global contexts and is the co-editor of Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts (Boydell & Brewer, 2021) and author of Celestina and the Human Condition in Early Modern Spain and Italy (Tamesis, 2017), as well as book chapters and articles.
Rania Mneimneh
Curator, Social Science Researcher, Designer
Rania Mneimneh is a curator, designer and social science researcher with an MA in History of Arts and Architecture from SOAS and an MSc in International Social and Public Policy from LSE, London. Her research focuses on migration, diversity, and social engagement through artistic practice. She curated Tints of Resilience exhibition (P21 Gallery, London, 2018), which explored artistic practice around forced migration and was funded by AFAC, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture. She has designed memorialization publications on war disappearances for Act for the Disappeared and the International Committee of the Red Cross (Lebanon, 2017) and was the Art Programme Manager for Empowerment Through Integration NGO during their 2017 summer camp in Lebanon, leading art courses for youths with visual disabilities. Rania is currently head of Research and Advocacy at Croydon based charity, Play for Progress (UK). She is based between Singapore, Beirut and London.
Ghazaleh (Zalia) Zogheib
Curator, Researcher and Language Teacher
Ghazaleh (Zalia) is a curator, researcher and language teacher. She has an MA from King’s College London and a master’s degree in Literature from La Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the relationship between art, learning and the development of inclusive art spaces. She curated Rayan Elnayal’s Imagining Afrabia for the AWAN festival 2020 and Dema One’s Resilience Exile Mutation at the P21 Gallery, 2019 alongside panel discussions and workshops. Parallel to her work in the arts, Zalia has worked on peacebuilding programmes in conflict zones.