Mohamad Hafeda is an artist, writer and academic whose work explores spatial justice through community engagement and participatory art and architecture. His research addresses borders, displacement, refuge and spatial rights. Mohamed is an Associate Professor at The Bartlett, UCL, and a founding partner of Febrik, a platform for participatory art and design research working with underrepresented communities in contexts of migration and refuge.

He is the author of Negotiating Conflict in Lebanon: Bordering Practices in a Divided Beirut (2019), and the co-author of Creative Refuge (2014) and Action of Street / Action of Room: A Directory of Public Actions (2016). He has also co-edited Narrating Beirut from its Borderlines (2011) and Border Fictions (2025).

Mohamad’s films include Sewing Borders (2018), The Time While Waiting (2022) and The Interpreter (2026). His collaborative projects with communities, NGOs, the United Nations and cultural institutions have been presented at the Serpentine Galleries, South London Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Eye Filmmuseum and Beirut Art Center. In 2021 he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize in the Visual and Performing Arts for his contributions to socially engaged art.