Hiba Ali is a producer of moving images, sounds, garments and words. They reside in many
time zones: Chicago, Toronto and Eugene. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, they belong to East
African, South Asian and Arab diasporas. They are a practitioner and (re)learner of Swahili,
Urdu, Arabic and Spanish languages. They work on two long-term art and publication projects:
the first being an art-based PhD project that examines womyn of colour’s labour, and
architecture of surveillance as it exists within the monopoly of amazon (corp.) and the second
being a series of works that addresses music, cloth and ritual practices that connect East Africa,
South Asia and the Arabian peninsula in the Swahili-indian ocean region.
