Abstract

In 2010, I co-founded Bait al Karama, a women’s centre and social enterprise in the Old City of Nablus (Palestine). Bait al Karama, still up and running today, is managed by local women under the charismatic direction of Fatima Kaddumy, co-founder and community activist. Bait al Karama is a slow, immersive, and communal socially engaged artwork that mimics in its format a non-governmental organisation (NGO) initiative. As a result of this porosity between artistic intervention and social initiative, Bait al Karama has often been labelled as an initiative empowering the local women’s community.