I am a British-Algerian (Kabyle) writer and photographer from Manchester, England. I’m interested in mixed heritage, sex, and intergenerational trauma, and how we can use mixed-media to narrate these experiences. I’m currently undertaking a PhD at Falmouth University / University Arts London.
I move between Manchester, London and Cornwall. I co-founded SOBER. Magazine with my friend Rupert Phillips in 2018, and acted as Poetry Editor for REALITY BEACH between 2016 - 2019. I also sporadically run litbitch where I review literature. My debut book Notes of a Mongrel’s DNA came out in November 2023 with Hesterglock Press.
I like: Ariana Reines; Burial; Noname; Édouard Levé; Frantz Fanon; James Baldwin; The White Hotel (M3 7LW); Rick Strassman; Etherwood; Grouper; Dodie Bellamy; Kathy Acker; Georges Bataille; Francesca Woodman; J Dilla; DMT; Edgar Garcia (Skins of Columbus); Lounès Matoub; Bunny Rogers; Malika Booker; Susan Sontag; Andy Stott; Pierre Guyotat; Anne Sexton; SOPHIE; Akua Ofosuhene; Alexander and Ann Shulgin; Erykah Badu; D’Angelo; my Aunt Taous’ chlada felfa; ORWO UT22; fukudapero; Carrie Mae Weems; Noel Carroll; Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio; Semiotext(e); Si Mohand; NourbeSe M Philip; Pierre Bourdieu; Younes Adli; calathea lancifolia; the Karakou jacket; James’ ginger hair; Makilam; Motown; a Dark n’ Stormy; Lalla Fadma N’Soumer; Great Danes; Dad’s soup; Mum’s laugh-lines; Tracy Emin; Susan Howe; the way Nigella Lawson speaks; Ilford FP4; Alexander McQueen; Béjaïa, Kabyle dress; The Famous Barrel pub; The Watts Prophets; Tinariwen; Enrico Macias; etc, etc.
Photo Credit to Alan Eric Carter