Mariam Boctor

Kuzbara Collective is a writing, research, and cooking/baking partnership between Mariam Boctor and Nour Kamel interested in food, our bodies, ecologies, the land, heritage, and alternative knowledges, based in Cairo, Egypt. Together they have created and facilitated several writing workshops and subsequent publications on food, bodies, ritual, and care. Mariam is a writer, translator and researcher with a background in pharmacy, herbal medicine and public health. They have worked as a curator and researcher on Botoun and A Lifetime of Wind with the Contemporary Image Collective. Her writing has appeared in The Outpost and Mada Masr amongst others. Nour is a writer, editor, and baker. Their chapbook ‘Noon’ is part of the New-Generation African Poets series and their writing can be found in Anomaly, Rusted Radishes, 20.35 Africa, Mizna, and World Literature Today, amongst others. Kamel was shortlisted for the Brunel University International African Poetry Prize in 2020 and writes about identity, language, gender, oppression, family and food.