The Poetry Project

Basyma Saad

A selfie taken by Basyma at night under purple neon light.

Basyma Saad (she/her) is an artist and writer born in Beirut. Her work explores notions of historical rupture, spontaneity, and surplus, through film, performance, and sculpture, alongside essays and fiction. With an emphasis on past and present forms of struggle, she attempts to place scenes of intersubjective exchange within their world-historical frames.