Timeline

1952

Born in Beirut, Lebanon

1970 - 1972

Beirut University College, Beirut

1975 - 1979

The Byam Shaw School of Art, London

1979 - 1981

The Slade School of Art, London

1984

Video production residency at The Western Front Art Centre, Vancouver

1986 - 1987

Residency at Chisenhale Dance Space, London

1986 - 1989

Member of the Management Committee of the London Video Access, London

1986 - 1994

Visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

1986

Residency at 9.1.1. Contemporary Arts Centre, Seattle

1987

Member of the Advisory Committee of Third Text (Third World Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture)

1988 - 1992

Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at Cardiff Institute of Higher Education, Cardiff

1988

Video production residency at The Western Front Art Centre, Vancouver

1990 - 1993

Member of Artists' Film and Video Committee of the Arts Council of England

1992 - 1997

Part-time teaching post at Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht

1994 - 1995

Guest Professor at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris

1997

Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Dartington College of Arts, Devon, England

1998

Awarded title of Visiting Professor by Chelsea College of Art and Design and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

Awarded the Roswitha Hoftmann prize

2004

Awarded The Sonning Prize

Lives and works in London and Berlin