I am happy to announce that we received the Best Poster/Demo Award at the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies 2021 (Seattle and Online) for the presentation Pluriversal Design: A Virtual Decolonising Exhibition. As part of this collaboration, Laura Lennert Jensen, Vivi Vold and myself developed the exhibition space […]
Fellowships and Awards
My proposal “The Future Memory Collection: An Online Archive and Real-Life Exhibition Space” has been recommended for funding by the Society for Visual Anthropology review committee and received the SVA Robert Lemelson Fellowship 2019-2020. I am grateful for the SVA’s interest in my work and support. As part of the […]
In fall 2018, I start an exciting fellowship at the H2020 project POEM – Concepts, strategies, and media infrastructures for envisioning socially inclusive potential futures of European Societies through culture. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant […]
Winner of the German Musical Theater Award 2016 in the categorie Stage Design “Der Tunnel“. Stage Design and Video: Marc Jungreithmeier. Video: Marc Jungreitmeier & Anne Chahine (née Sehlz). Awarded by the German Musical Academy.
My short documentary Looking for Mr. Right Now has been awarded Best Short Documentary January 2016 by the Around Films International Film Festival.
In December 2015, I was awarded a one-year scholarship from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), Germany’s largest and most prestigious scholarship foundation. With their support, I was able to successfully finish my MA studies at the Free University of Berlin, focusing on Visual and Media Anthropology.
My short documentary Beirut in two Words has been nominated for the Ethnocineca Student Shorts Award 2015: Young talents – Big cinema! With the ESSA, ethnocineca gives due attention to the multifaceted inspiration of young documentary filmmaking. The award not only presents an international platform for young filmmakers of documentary filmmaking, […]
The short documentary Beirut in two words has been nominated for the ‘Köln Design Preis 2014’. The exhibition of the nominated projects took place in the MAKK Cologne.
The University of Applied Science Cologne has honored my final project Beirut in Two Words: Development and Production of a Documentary Film as Best Undergraduate Thesis in 2013/14.