Sahar Khraibani is a writer, artist, poet, and adjunct associate professor at Pratt Institute. Born and raised in Beirut, Khraibani is currently based in Brooklyn, and is interested in the digital reproducibility of trauma, poetic computation, decentralization, and how political landscapes influence creative output.
Khraibani's writing and research have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, The Poetry Project’s Footnotes, Hyperallergic, Al Hayya Magazine, The Magnum Foundation, FOMU’s Trigger, The Poetry Foundation, Nightboat Books, and Bidayat Mag among many others. They are the recipient of the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol's Arts Writers grant (2024), the Montez Press Writer’s Grant (2020), a fellowship from Asia Contemporary Art Week, and is currently the 2023-2024 Emerge—Surface—Be Fellow at the Poetry Project. Khraibani’s research has been nominated for the United States Artists Fellowship and her visual work has been exhibited as part of group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Cairo, Abu Dhabi, and Beirut.
Current pedagogical interests include “teaching collaboration,” a new approach, theory, and series of experiments to push against power structures in the classroom, borrowing from systems of blockchain and the holobiont: an attempt to redistribute authority in a way that helps see beyond the hierarchies and structures we currently inhabit. This stems from the belief that one must always be “in study” (Moten & Harney) and that pedagogy/academia must be flexible to accommodate for our rapidly changing world. “Teaching collaboration” is also concerned with inclusivity, access, ableism, power, and slowness as a retaliation against the rapid speed of production and capitalism.
At MacDowell, Khraibani completed their first manuscript. The book is forthcoming with 1080Press. Additionally, they started working on their second poetry collection titled One Thousand Ghosts in This Feast, which is inspired by time spent in the woods at MacDowell.
During their residency, they were accepted into the Prestigious Whitney’s Independent Study Program as a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies. Their work was also published this summer by the Poetry Project and is forthcoming in BOMB Magazine.
Portrait by Em Gallagher
