Meyad Sarsour-Ndaye is a deaf Muslim-Palestinian artist, filmmaker, and education and inclusion expert. She studied women’s and gender studies and special education in Tel Aviv, where she worked for many years with deaf and deafblind Arabs. She was particularly committed to the education, self-determination, and independence of deaf women. She also supported the linguistic documentation of the village sign language of her hometown Kafr Qasim. Meyad currently lives in Germany, works in a youth club for deaf young people, and gives lectures on deaf people in Palestine and Israel, Palestinian culture, anti-Muslim racism, and women’s rights in Islam. She is also currently working as an artist on a film project that focuses on the experiences, language, and stories of Palestinian deaf people.

At Ballhaus Naunynstraße, she will moderate the panel Widerstand und Feiern aus Tauber BIPoC Perspektive (Resistance and Celebration from a Deaf BIPoC Perspective), the fourth edition of the discussion series Widerständiges Feiern (Resistant Celebration) curated by Fabienne Mahwane for the festival Black Berlin Black – Festivity.