The Amplification Project:
Women Artists of the Arab Diaspora (Detroit)
Venue
Detroit Historical Museum
Dates
June 13 - September 13, 2026
Curatorial Statement
This exhibition emerges from The Amplification Project, a living, crowd-sourced digital archive documenting art shaped by forced migration, displacement, and cultural survival. Focusing on contemporary Arab women artists connected to Detroit, it explores migration, inheritance, and life between cultural geographies. Unfolding as a visual and auditory environment, the exhibition features artworks, installations, film, poetry, and recorded narration inspired by hakawati (a centuries-old tradition of Arabic oral storytelling) accompanied by ambient soundscapes. Together, image, voice, and sound trace arcs of rupture, resilience, and rebirth, revealing how artists shaped by diaspora and displacement find re-emergence and contribute new artistic languages rooted in Detroit’s Arab American community.
Soundscapes
Listen to ambient soundscapes featuring the narrations of the exhibition's artists, composed by Didier Nietsche and Christophe Bailleau O’Farrell. To view all the soundscapes, press 'Tracklist'.
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    The Art & Artists in the Show
    Ilham Badderdine Mahfouz
    Malak Cherri
    Chloé Hajjar
    Andrea Shaker
    Therese Basha Jarjoura
    Razaan Killawi
    Sama Chahine
    Leila Abdelrazaq
    Marguerite Dabaie
    Cyrah Dardas
    Hannah Fahoome
    Zina Hakeem
    Ibaa Ismail
    Aya Krisht
    Maamoul Press
    Biba Sheikh
    Sr7aneh (Jenin Yaseen)
    Kamelya Omayma Youssef
    Zeinab Saab
    Guest Artists
    Nabil Abughanima, Marcel Ghosn, Mohamad Harb, Khalil Khaled, Suhail Salem