All I Want for Christmas

Sama Alshaibi is Assistant Professor of Art in the Photography Department at the University of Arizona, Tucson, as well as cofounder of the 6+ women’s art collective. Born in Basra, Iraq, to an Iraqi father and Palestinian mother and now a naturalized U.S. citizen, Alshaibi’s recent work investigates “borderlands,” including her own hyphenated identity, as critical sites in both physical and psychological terms. Her art and essays have recently appeared in Refuge & Rejection, Nueva Luz, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. Alshaibi received her M.F.A. from University of Colorado (Boulder) in photography, video and media arts (2005).