Leen Alfatafta

Leen Alfatafta is a visual and cultural anthropologist based between Amman and Washington, D.C. Her research follows the Zarqa River in Jordan to explore how life, care, and kinship endure amid environmental degradation and industrial waste. Working through ethnographic and multimodal methods, she traces how toxicity and neglect reshape social life, and how practices of maintenance and repair become forms of survival and relation. She is part of the programming teams at Darkroom Amman (@darkroomamman) and Asphalt (@asphaltcoop). Leen holds a BA in Sociology and Gender Studies from New College of Florida and an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University, and is pursuing a PhD in Cultural and Visual Anthropology at The George Washington University.