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Mohammed
Al Qudwa
Writer & Author
Mohammed Al Qudwa
He is a Palestinian writer, poet, and performance artist from Gaza City. His work emerges from lived experience and explores the body as a site of memory, time, and survival, engaging with themes of displacement, identity, and contemporary Palestinian reality.
He has facilitated creative writing workshops in collaboration with cultural institutions including the Tamer Institute for Community Education (Gaza) and the Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF, Egypt). His artistic practice moves between writing, performance, and embodied research.
Mohammed has participated in international artistic residencies in France, including the SAWA SAWA artistic residency program initiated by the Institut français de Jérusalem, as well as the Jeunes ESTivants 2025 creative residency hosted by Passages Transfestival as part of the French national Été culturel initiative. His current performance project, Three Seasons and a Body, is developed through multiple artistic residencies and collaborations with European cultural institutions such as Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, NEST – CDN Transfrontalier de Thionville-Grand Est, and Le Plus Petit Cirque du Monde.
He is currently supported by the PAUSE Program, the French national program for artists and researchers in exile, and lives and works in France.
Last Updates
Contemporary Writing Week in Dijon
Between 8 – 12 December 2025
I took part in La Semaine des Écritures Contemporaines at Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, an event dedicated to contemporary writing and performance, centered in its 2025 edition on the theme of desire.
Opening Event of La Semaine des Écritures Contemporaines – Dijon
December 8,2025
As part of the opening of La Semaine des Écritures Contemporaines at Théâtre Dijon Bourgogne, drama students from the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Dijon presented a staged reading of my texts on the main stage. This opening performance officially launched the week and highlighted my writing through collective interpretation, voice, and live musical accompaniment.
Nour Acte II
A poetic and musical celebration of the Arabic language” | Performance,Created during the 2025 edition of the Avignon Festival, the show Nour, a poetic and musical celebration of the Arabic language, is being given a unique adaptation as part of ‘IMA Celebrates Its Festival!’ ”
02/12/2025
17th of November- Bagneux
maquette
Opening of the Monodrama Show: “Three Seasons and a Body”
17/11/2025
11th of september - Metz
maquette
Opening of the Monodrama Show: “Three Seasons and a Body”
11/9/2025
Album Gallery
Body Theatre on Violence
The biggest thing happening now is putting our bodies in a graveyard because we believe they cannot do anything.
The truth is that impotence lies in our minds, not in our bodies.
Text: Beneath the Softness of Knives
Written and Performed by: Mohammed Al-Qudwa