Neamat El-Diwany associates the practice of art, the repeated act of bringing beauty into the world, as an essential response to the ugliness of our current historical moment. There is a sense of urgency in her tone.

Sometimes an individual is representative of the times and deeply engaged with a specific locale. And at times that same individual goes beyond both and opens up uncharted possibilities that are worth contemplating in oral histories. Zeinab Khalifa is just such an individual.