Writers Remix Series | Art of Islamic Worlds
Abdurrahman Danquah | oais hala | Maha Abdelwahab | Raneem Bakir Alia
Abdurrahman Danqua
oasis hala
Maha Abdelwahab
Raneem Bakir Alia
July 10, 2025
Experience the MFAH collection of Islamic art through the written word. This session of the Writers Remix Series focuses on the Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds in the Law Building. Local writers perform original works, all within the Museum galleries.
Performing Artists
- Abdurrahman Danquah
- oais hala
- Maha Abdelwahab
- Raneem Baki Alia
Plan Your Visit
- This program is included with Museum admission.
- The performances take place in the Galleries for Art of the Islamic Worlds in the Law Building.
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About the Artists
Abdurrahman Danquah is a Houston-based filmmaker and artist. Danquah uses film, poetry, and photography to explore identity, faith, and connection. He holds a degree in media production and is set to pursue an MFA in film at the University of Texas at Austin this fall.
oais hala is a Muslim, Sudanese writer and poet whose voice developed in the suburbs of southeast Houston. She caters to and is inspired by the memory of body and home, the lyricism of Arabic poetry, and the ever-standing question of the self. It is through writing that she makes sense of the world and through the gift of community that her writing is strengthened. She is a regional spoken-word competitor and award-winning fiction writer.
Maha Abdelwahab is a poet and PhD candidate in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston, specializing in empire studies. Her work, exploring themes of diaspora, gender, and imperialism, appears in The Adroit Journal, The Recluse, and more.
Raneem Bakir Alia is a Moroccan–Palestinian American poet and scholar who explores themes of matrilineage, grief, and girlhood. Alia's work focuses on gendered perspectives in North African liberation movements. A Mellon Research Scholar, she formerly edited Glass Mountain magazine.
All Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Institute of Museum and Library Services; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; Macey and Harry Reasoner; the Texas Commission on the Arts; and the Junior League of Houston, Inc.
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
This MFAH lecture series is endowed by the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation.