Panel on Food as Art, Memory, and Resistance

Organized jointly by the Department of Nutrition and Food

Science at the School of Arts and Sciences (SOAS) and the Institute of Art in the Arab World (IAAW) at the School of

Architecture and Design at LAU.

The panel will explore how contemporary artists across the Arab world and diaspora use food as a medium to address questions of identity, memory, migration, and resistance.

Moderator: Dr. Lama Mattar, Associate Professor of Nutrition, LAU

Speakers:

Hussein Hadid, Chef

Christine Kettaneh, Artist

Dr. Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Professor of Art and Design

Sirou Sarian, Food Installation Artist

Seta Manoukian, Artist

Christine Abi Azar, founder, No Chef in the Kitchen