“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

About Aya Haidar

Aya Haidar is a Lebanese multimedia artist, whose work focuses on the use of found and recycled objects in order to create poetic works exploring loss, migration and memory. Aya graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the Slade School of Fine Art in London and completed an exchange at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Her MSc. in ‘NGOs and Development’ came from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Articles by Aya Haidar

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Safe spaces, bagpipes and houmous

Aya Haidar and Rosemary Bechler 4 December 2017

“This is the safe space I was talking about… a totally open space people can feel safe in, because stories are shared, barriers are broken and everyone is welcome.”

Letter from a recovering Team Syntegrity 2017 participant

Aya Haidar 25 July 2017

"In this exercise, we were forced to sit side by side and face to face and discuss diverse issues reasonably, coherently, and cohesively. It was smart and it was intimate."

Creating safe and inclusive spaces in society

Nikos Odubitan, Aya Haidar, Rhiannon White, Ana Segovia, and Rebecca Fitzgerald 17 July 2017

Religion and secularism

Simona Levi, Richard Bartlett, Markha Valenta, Vanessa Kisuule, and Aya Haidar 7 July 2017

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