Born in Beirut, Alia Hamdan is a researcher in esthetic politics and a performance practitioner. Her research and artistic interests gravitate around the fields of dance and performance, the Deleuzian theory of the image, and Lebanese and Palestinian esthetic politics. Since 2013, she teaches courses in performance and cinema theory in various universities. In 2022, she was in a residency at the Camargo foundation (Cassis, France) 3, and more recently at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in (2023, Stuttgart, Germany).