Heidi Sarah Affi

Heidi Sarah Affi is a Syrian American researcher, writer, consultant and artist with interests including counter-memories, surrealism, and relations to the earth. She holds an MSc in Human Rights and Politics from the LSE and is currently an AlQasimi scholar at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at The University of Exeter, where her PhD explores Syrian memories in the Jazira region through land, art, and material witnesses. Heidi is also a co-founder of azl (https://azl.world/), a digital publication of visual art, writing, and open-source knowledge exchange. She has a background in food and environmental justice in both the US and UK.