Omar Kholeif is an Egyptian-born, UK-based writer, editor and curator. His writing appears regularly in The Guardian, Art Monthly, PopMatters, Film International, Advocate, Frieze, What’s On Stage, and Scope, to name but a few. Omar holds an MA from the University of Glasgow in Film & Television Studies and Politics, as well as a professional degree from Screen Academy Scotland, and is an Inspire fellow at the Royal College of Art, London and FACT (The Foundation For Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool. He is also a contributor to Document (http://www.docfilmfest.org.uk), the only UK documentary film festival, with a human rights focus, based at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Glasgow, Scotland. Omar’s writing has also been produced professionally for the UK stage, and developed through the likes of the UK Film Council, Scottish Screen, the Script Factory and Royal Court, London.  He most recently co-edited the reader, Vision, Memory and Media (Liverpool/Chicago Univ Press 2010).

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