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Rabab Ghazoul



Rabab Ghazoul is an artist, curator, and founder/director of Cardiff-based Gentle/Radical. Working for over 20 years at the intersections of art, culture, equity and social justice, she’s interested in how micro-local formations that centre cultural democratisation, decoloniality and healing justice can radically model the futures we deserve. At Gentle/Radical she oversees projects that harness the power of culture as practiced through the lens of reparation. In the process, Gentle/Radical’s work seeks to reframe ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ beyond its token applications, centring long-term embedded projects within hyper-local neighbourhood settings.

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