Omar Kholeif

Omar Kholeif is an Egyptian-born, UK-based writer, curator and producer. His writing appears in The Guardian, Art Monthly, Ibraaz, Film International, Frieze, WIRED, and many other publications. He is curator at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), Liverpool, the UK’s national centre for film and new media, and Visiting Curator at Cornerhouse, Manchester’s international art and film organisation, and Associate Curator at the Arab British Centre, London. He is founding Director of the UK’s Arab Film Festival, a curator for Abandon Normal Devices and a contributing curator to the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, among others. Kholeif’s cross disciplinary curatorial practice is focused on the presentation of film, video and new media for both the cinema and the gallery – producing international exhibitions, festivals and public programmes. Omar is a founding editor of Portal 9 (Beirut), co-editor of Vision, Memory and Media (Liverpool University Press 2010), Far and Wide: Nam June Paik (LEA 2012), among others. He holds degrees from the University of Glasgow and The Royal College of Art, London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.