Nour Osseiran is an independent researcher and volunteer paramedic based in Lebanon. Her research stimulates proactive attitudes towards creating art projects outside the white cube space through public art commissions, research publications, and socially-engaged artistic projects. Her most recent project Scratch the surface, touch the sun is a commission to five artists in the derelict Roman ruin of Hosn Niha in Beqaa, Lebanon. She took part in Independent Curators International’s curatorial intensive in Uganda (‘22) and was a short-term curatorial fellow at the Beirut Art Center (‘22).