Lama El Khatib

writer and cultural worker

Lama El Khatib is a writer and cultural worker. She trained in architecture and studied art history and philosophy at the American University of Beirut, Beirut.

She is currently pursuing a master’s in philosophy at the Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin. Her research and practice focus on questions and histories of labor and property, relations of debt and inheritance, and on the intellectual and political legacies of abolition. Since 2018, she has worked at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin as a curatorial researcher, coordinator, and producer.