Salma Serry is a cultural worker specialized in the history of food in West Asia and Egypt. She is also the curator of Sufra Archive, a digital archive project and social media platform dedicated to the region’s food history and culture. Her research interests revolve broadly around historical reconfigurations of power in infrastructures of empire and daily life, through tracing overlapping networks of food, technology and labour. Her PhD project was awarded the SSHRC Doctoral Award from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada, while her art projects have received the Research on the Arts grant from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) and the Arab Council for Social Sciences (ACSS). Her work has been exhibited at the Cannes Film Festival, Oxford Food Symposium, Design Toronto, Art Jameel (Dubai), Hayy Jameel (Jeddah), the Arab Council for Social Sciences (Beirut), the Islamic Biennial (Jeddah), and Cairo Design Week.
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