Thames & Hudson Presents: Yawm al-Firak: In Conversation: Sakir Khader & Aya Musa

Photographer Sakir Khader and curator Aya Musa come together in a conversation moderated by curator Dalia Al-Dujaili, focusing on their collaboration on Sakir’s first solo museum exhibition Yawm al-Firak, Arabic for Day of Separation. They will share their experiences working as photographers in conflict zones, discuss the responsibilities of institutions, and explore the ethical choices involved in presenting complex narratives in cultural spaces.

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Aya Musa
Aya Musa (NL, 1979) is curator at Foam. He worked as a journalist and photographer in conflict zones in the past. In his work, Aya combines social developments with new exhibition forms, where photography is not subordinate to the context from which it arises, but at the same time never loses sight of this context. In this way, he gives photography a stage that goes beyond existing clichés. Since 2001, he has combined his work in the Netherlands with empirical ethnographic research into the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent.

Sakir Khader
Sakir Khader (NL, 1990) studied economics, journalism, media management, and communication. After working as a reporter and investigative journalist, he fully dedicated himself to documentary photography and film. Though he’s not been taking photographs for long, Khader has already won prestigious prizes, including the Silver Camera Award and, in 2024, a place at Magnum as the agency’s first Palestinian Dutch nominee.

Dalia Al-Dujaili

Dalia Al-Dujaili is a British-born Iraqi writer, editor, and producer based in London and is the online editor of The British Journal of Photography. She writes mostly about creativity from the SWANA region and its diaspora. With bylines in The Guardian, Dazed, GQ, Aperture, Atmos, Service95 and more, she’s the founder of the Road to Nowhere Magazine and the author of Babylon, Albion: A personal history of myth and migration. She’s worked with The ICA, TATE Galleries, The Southbank Centre, Autograph, the Zaha Hadid Foundation, the Barbican, The Photographer’s Gallery and more.