Sarah Farahat

Sarah Farahat is a transdiciplinary Egyptian American artist, activist and educator dreaming of a more collective future amongst the rubble of capitalist empires. For the past twelve years she has organized her life around questions of identity, assimilation, grief, socio-political struggle, collective liberation and self-determination. She loves learning through stories, plants, music, food traditions and healing arts. Her work lives in protests, archives, non-profit, public and digital spaces including the Hollywood Transit Center (2018), The War Memorial Veterans Building (2017), under a bridge (2017), The Oakland Museum of California (2016), Minnesota Street Projects (2016), a grassy strip between two cities (2016), Southern Exposure (2015), SmackMellon (2015), Portland, Oregon's PLACE gallery (2011), an empty office space (2007), a busy intersection in Dakar, Senegal (2007), walls in Portland (2017), L.A. (2002) and Chiapas, Mexico (2006), a digital billboard in Savannah, Georgia, (2011), on bookshelves in Beirut, Milan and Manchester (2012), in a stairwell, a restaurant and a phone booth in Beirut, Lebanon (2012), in a bustling marketplace in Torino, Italy (2012) and in a traveling imaginary archive housed temporarily at the Center for Contemporary Art in Graz, Austria (2013). Her work is online as a part of 52 Weeks of Gulf Labor with collaborator Aaron Hughes (2014), and is in the permanent collections of Just Seeds Collective: War is Trauma: 10 Years of the IVAW, the Poor People's Campaign Portfolio, the Arab American Museum Library, the Charles Voorhies Fine Art Library, The Palestine Poster Project and The Center for the Study of Political Graphics. ​ Her work has been featured in publications including Art Forum, The Oregonian, L'Orient Le Jour, KBOO Radio, & The Daily Star. She is a member of the Justseeds Artists' Cooperative" 

Featured here is about half the book, A Third for Luck. To purchase the full book, here's the link for orders: http://www.sarahfarahat.com/book-orders.html