Portrait of Aya Nassif
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Storyteller · Documentarian · Performer

How do we remain human, in the face of tragedy?

Aya Nassif documents the lives of ordinary people whose experiences of war, migration, grief, and resilience answer that question — one story at a time.

My work asks audiences to look at stories that might otherwise be forgotten.
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Three ways in

JMU
Stage

Solo performance

Cooking with a Small Arab Girl

A Lebanese American woman makes American cuisine with a Lebanese twist — and, somewhere between the peanut butter and the French, tells you who she is.

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On
Air

Podcast

For the Dreamers

First-person stories of immigration, resilience, and hope, made for the expats, the immigrants, the survivors.

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One
Story

Multimedia project

In Between Here and the Sea

On surviving after — not war, or immigration, or grief as a single event, but survival as a lifelong practice.

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