Ghalya Saadawi teaches art theory and critical theory in the Department of Fine Art and Art History at the American University of Beirut and at the Dutch Art Institute, ArtEZ University. She taught at the Centre for Research Architecture in the Department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths between 2019 and the present, as well as across various Lebanese universities. From 2015–2017 she directed the art school/residency the Home Workspace Programme (Ashkal Alwan), and since 2015 is member of Beirut Institute for Critical Analysis and Research (BICAR). Some of her recent writings on art, cinema, hypochondria, appear in periodicals and journals such as Salvage, the derivative, ArtMargins, Journal of Visual Culture, PhiloSOPHIA, the book volumes Militant Media and A Cut Through the Screen: Struggles’ Reverberations in Cinema. She is at work on a manuscript on hypochondria as symptom and figure of critique in modernity, and her book Between October and November is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions. She lives between Beirut and London.