Róisín Tapponi is an Irish-Iraqi writer, editor, curator and archivist. In 2018, she founded Habibi Collective, a digital archive and curatorial platform for MENA women’s filmmaking. She is also founder and editor-in-chief of ART WORK, a new biannual critical art magazine for marginalised writers, artists and practices. She currently works at The Mosaic Rooms, a gallery in Kensington dedicated to contemporary Arab art. Tapponi has curated screenings in galleries, festivals and cinemas across the UAE, US, UK, Italy, Sweden and Slovenia, among others. She is currently curating the film programme for the upcoming exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s at Northwestern University, Chicago, and she has been appointed Film Curator for the annual Seattle Arab Festival in the State of Washington, US. She has lectured on contemporary Arab art in institutions such as Oxford University and the Royal Photographic Society, UK. She has also contributed to a number of publications and platforms, including The Guardian, i-D, Frieze, MILLE World, Yes & No, DATEAGLE ART and Trippin’. She received a BA in Comparative Literature (with Italian and Arabic) from University College London (UCL) and is pursuing a further career in academia.  Her research is grounded in Arab female essay film and political ecologies. Born in 1999 in Dublin, Tapponi lives and works in London.