BIBLIOGRAPHY (selected)

artist writing and interviews

“Rania Lee Khalil questions the Eurocentricism built into artistic research and ecological thinking” Univeristy of Arts Helsinki  26.1.2024

Khalil, Rania Lee.  “The Third World Ecology Trilogy” Postcoloniality, Embodiment and Ecology”  Doctoral Thesis 2023 

Khalil, Rania Lee.  “Sinai:  Tourism, Colonialism and Sea”  Journal for Embodied Research, May 2021 

Khalil, Rania Lee. Artist Pages: The Pan African Asian Women’s Organization, Cairo to Conakry.  Ecosomatics Journal vol 2  Spring 2020


Khalil, Rania Lee. “Family Photographs as Political Performance: The Pan-African Asian Women’s Organization, Cairo to Conakry 1960-1965” Performance and Otherness (vol 1), Theatre Academy Helsinki Press,  2018

Khalil, Rania Lee. “Palestinian Wildlife Series: Embodiment in Images and Critical Abstraction” Journal for Artistic Research vol. 10, 2016

Khalil, Rania Lee. “Things You Didn’t Decide: On Making a Site Specific Performance in Palestine.”  Essays on Live Art and Performance Studies. Episodi 4. ed. Annette Arlander. Theatre Academy Press, Helsinki. 2014.

reviews and publications about my work

Trans Asia Photography Review, Review of Our Land” ed. by Anthony Hamboussi, Fall 2019

Schulenberg, Anneke.  "Lost in Translation? Video Art by Egyptian Female Artists".  Overview Film Project,  2016

Said, Maha.  “Dropping the Hyphen: Arab American Poetry from Ethnic to Diaspora”.   American Studies Conference, American University of Beirut, 2016

Basiouny, Dalia and Marvin Carlson. “Flag Piece” Arab Stages volume 2. april, 2015

Basiouny, Dalia. “Descent as Dissent” Political and Protest Theatre after 9/11  ed. Jenny Spencer. New York: Routledge Press. 2012.

Sabry, Somaya Sami. Arab American Women’s Writing and Performance: Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights. London and New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. 2011

Carlson, Marvin and Dalia Basiouny. “Current Trends in Arab American Theater” Performance, Exile and America ed. by Sylvia Jestrovic and Yana Meerzon. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2009.