Rasha Salti

Salti grew up in Beirut. She holds an M.A. in Liberal Studies from the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research, New York (2000) and a B.A. in Fine Arts from Georgetown University (1992).

Salti's involvement with film programming started at the Théâtre de Beyrouth, an independent cultural space in the post-war Beirut.{{Cite book|last=Chabrol|first=Arnaud|title="La fabrique artistique de la mémoire: effet de génération et entreprises artistiques dans le Liban contemporain" in Mémoires de guerres au Liban (1975-1990)|publisher=Actes Sud|year=2010|isbn=978-2742789955|location=|pages=485–509}}{{Citation|last=Iché|first=Sandra|title=Chapitre 1. Une place marginale dans la presse libanaise d'après-guerre|date=2013-02-13|url=http://books.openedition.org/ifpo/640|work=L’Orient-Express: Chronique d'un magazine libanais des années 1990|pages=31–46|series=Cahiers de l’Ifpo|publisher=Presses de l’Ifpo|isbn=978-2-35159-272-4|access-date=2020-03-09}} She organized several cultural events, such as "Image Quest,"{{Cite thesis|title=Rethinking the Witness: Art After the Lebanese Wars|url=http://research.gold.ac.uk/27641/|publisher=Goldsmiths, University of London|date=2019-09-30|degree=doctoral|first=Ghalya|last=Saadawi}} the first film and video festival in postwar Lebanon (with Moukhtar Kocache) (1995), "For a Critical Culture," a tribute to Edward Said (1997), "50, Nakba and Resistance," a series of events that commemorated Nakba in Palestine (1998), and two editions of Home Works at Ashkal Alwan.{{Cite journal|last1=Dagher|first1=Sandra|last2=David|first2=Catherine|last3=Salti|first3=Rasha|last4=Tohme|first4=Christine|last5=Demos|first5=T. J.|date=2007-06-01|title=Curating Beirut: A Conversation on the Politics of Representation|journal=Art Journal|volume=66|issue=2|pages=98–119|doi=10.1080/00043249.2007.10791258|s2cid=153517215 |issn=0004-3249}}

Between 2004–10, Salti worked as the film programmer and creative director of ArteEast in New York.{{Cite web |date=25 July 2017 |title=A Brief History of ArteEast's Quarterly Magazine; Mirene Arsanios Interviews Rasha Salti |url=https://arteeast.org/quarterly/a-brief-history-of-arteeasts-quarterly-magazine-mirene-arsanios-interviews-rasha-salti/ |access-date=2020-03-09 |website=arteeast.org}} In 2005, she became the director of CinemaEast Film Festival in New York, focusing on the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporas. Her projects include 10th Sharjah Biennial{{Cite web |last=Wilson-Goldie |first=Kaelen |title=Sharjah Biennial 10: Plot for a Biennial |url=https://bidoun.org/articles/sharjah-biennial-10 |access-date=2020-03-09 |website=Bidoun |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sharjah Biennial: 10 Plot for a Biennial (16 March-16 May, 2011) and Art Dubai (16-19 March, 2011) |url=https://www.art-agenda.com/features/232649/sharjah-biennial-10-plot-for-a-biennial-16-march-16-may-2011-and-art-dubai-16-19-march-2011 |access-date=2020-03-09 |website=www.art-agenda.com |language=en}} (co-curated with Suzanne Cotter and Haig Aivazian), Sharjah (2011), Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s until Now{{Cite web|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1307|title=Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part III|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en|access-date=2020-03-09}}{{Cite news|last=Anderson|first=John|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/movies/films-from-the-arab-world-at-moma.html|title=The Past Is Always Present, Even Uninvited|date=2012-10-26|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-09|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite journal|last=Salti|first=Rasha|date=2013-12-17|title=Speculative Revisions of Film History: A Curator's Notes. (Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s-Now)|url=http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/8278|journal=Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée|language=fr|issue=134|pages=117–127|doi=10.4000/remmm.8278|issn=0997-1327|doi-access=free}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/mapping-subjectivity-experimentation-in-arab-cinema-from-the-1960s-to-now-part-i/|title=Mapping Subjectivity: Experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960s to Now, Part I|last=Cutler|first=Aaron|website=Slant Magazine |date=6 November 2010 |language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-09}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibraaz.org/interviews/56|title=Curating Film|website=Ibraaz|access-date=2020-03-09}} (co-curated with Jytte Jensen) at MoMA, New York (2010–12), and The Road to Damascus{{Cite web |last=Ioannis |first=Moukas |title=The Road to Damascus |url=https://bidoun.org/articles/the-road-to-damascus-discovering-syrian-cinema |access-date=2020-03-09 |website=Bidoun |language=en}}{{Cite news|last=Klawans|first=Stuart|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wind-mideast/|title=Wind From the Mideast|date=2006-05-18|access-date=2020-03-09|language=en-US|issn=0027-8378}} (co-curated with Richard Peña) at the Film Society at Lincoln Center and other venues in Africa and the Middle East (2006–08).

Salti's research-driven practice investigates canons in cultural histories. She is the co-founder (with Kristine Khouri) of the History of Arab Modernities in the Visual Arts Study Group, a research platform focused on the social history of art in the Arab world.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/print/201505/rasha-salti-and-kristine-khouri-51570|title=Rasha Salti and Kristine Khouri|website=www.artforum.com|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-09}}{{Cite journal|last1=Khouri|first1=Kristine|last2=Salti|first2=Rasha|date=2016-06-13|title=Past Disquiet: From Research to Exhibition|url=https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol5/iss1/8|journal=Artl@s Bulletin|volume=5|issue=1|issn=2264-2668}} Salti is the co-curator of the exhibition Past Disquiet: Narratives and Ghosts from the Exhibition of International Art for Palestine (Beirut, 1978) (with Kristine Khouri), which was hosted at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibraaz.org/reviews/78|title=Past Disquiet|website=Ibraaz|access-date=2020-03-09}}{{Cite news|last=Heald|first=Rebecca|url=https://frieze.com/article/past-disquiet-narratives-and-ghosts-international-art-exhibition-palestine-1978|title=Past Disquiet: Narratives and Ghosts from The International Art Exhibition for Palestine, 1978|work=Frieze|access-date=2020-03-09|issue=171|language=en|issn=0962-0672}}{{Cite web|url=http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/94/PastDisquiet|title=ArtAsiaPacific: Past Disquiet|website=artasiapacific.com|access-date=2020-03-09}} (MACBA) (2015), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2016-02-01 |title=Ideas in the making: Haus der Kulturen der Welt |url=http://digicult.it/internet/ideas-in-the-making-haus-der-kulturen-der-welt/ |access-date=2020-03-09 |website=Digicult {{!}} Digital Art, Design and Culture |language=en}} in Berlin (2016), the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende{{Cite web|url=https://mssa.cl/exposicion/past-disquiet/|title=Past Disquiet [Pasado Inquieto] – Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende|website=mssa.cl|language=es-ES|access-date=2020-03-09}} (MSSA) in Santiago de Chile (2018), the Sursock Museum{{Cite web|url=https://www.milleworld.com/beirut-exhibition-past-disquiet/|title=The Exhibition Reviving Palestine's Long Lost Art History|date=2018-08-16|website=Mille World|access-date=2020-03-09}} (2018) and [https://framerframed.nl/en/ Framer Framed] (2025) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This project is the result of a decade-long research that explores the artistic networks of international solidarity from Palestine to Chile, South Africa to Japan in the 1960 to the 1980s.{{Cite news |last=Cundy |first=Antonia |date=8 February 2019 |title=Past Disquiet edited by Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti — art’s brave new world |newspaper=Financial Times |url=https://www.ft.com/content/06fc9890-20af-11e9-b2f7-97e4dbd3580d |access-date=2020-03-09}}

Salti is also the co-curator of the exhibition Saving Bruce Lee: African and Arab Cinema in the Era of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy (with Koyo Kouoh), organized at Haus der Kulturen der Welt{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-01-12 |title=Saving Bruce Lee – African and Arab Cinema in the Era of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy |url=https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/2018/saving_bruce_lee/saving_bruce_lee_start.php |access-date=2020-03-09 |website=Haus der Kulturen der Welt |language=en}} in Berlin and at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow in 2015. This research-driven exhibition focuses on three generations of African and Arab filmmakers who studied in the USSR.{{Cite web|url=https://garagemca.org/en/event/koyo-kouoh-and-rasha-salti-saving-bruce-lee-african-and-arab-cinema-in-the-era-of-soviet-cultural-diplomacy|title=Koyo Kouoh and Rasha Salti: Saving Bruce Lee: African and Arab cinema in the era of Soviet cultural diplomacy (Introduction)|website=Garage|access-date=2020-03-09}}

Salti’s articles and essays have appeared in The Jerusalem Quarterly Report, Naqd, MERIP, The London Review of Books, Afterall, and Third Text, as well as several anthologies dedicated to film, art and culture. In 2018, she co-edited with Kristine Khouri, Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity and Museums in Exile, published by the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.{{Cite web|url=https://artmuseum.pl/en/publikacje/past-disquiet-artists-international-solidarity-and|title=Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity, and Museums-in-Exile - Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw|website=artmuseum.pl|language=en|access-date=2020-03-09}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3544#.XmYYapMzZN0|title=Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity and Museums in Exile|website=www.caareviews.org|access-date=2020-03-09}} In 2011 and 2012, she acted as the guest-editor of the Manifesta Journal for issues number 14, 15, and 16. In 2010, she co-edited I Would Have Smiled: A Tribute to Myrtle Winter-Chaumeny with Issam Nassar, a book dedicated to the legacy of the founder of the UNRWA.{{Cite book|title=I would have smiled : photographing the Palestinian refugee experience|date=2009|publisher=Institute for Palestinian Studies|others=Nassar, Issam., Salṭī, Rashā., Institute for Palestine Studies (Washington, D.C.), United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.|isbn=978-0-88728-309-3|location=Jerusalem|oclc=471747750}} In 2009, she collaborated with photographer Ziad Antar on an exhibition and book titled Beirut Bereft, The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict.{{Cite journal|last=Rogers|first=Sarah A.|date=2011|title=Review of BEIRUT BEREFT: THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE FORSAKEN AND MAP OF THE DERELICT|journal=The Arab Studies Journal|volume=19|issue=1|pages=161–164|issn=1083-4753|jstor=23265822}} In 2006, she edited Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays and Conversations with Filmmakers (ArteEast and Rattapallax Press).{{Cite book|title=Insights into Syrian cinema : essays and conversations with contemporary filmmakers|date=2006|publisher=ArteEast|others=Salṭī, Rashā.|isbn=1-892494-70-1|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=72480648}}

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