Portrait of Ouassima Laabich

Project Lead, SUPERRR Lab

Ouassima Laabich

  • 2024
  • Creative Bureaucracy Festival

Ouassima Laabich is the initiator and project lead of MUSLIM FUTURES at Superrr Lab. Muslim Futures combines (critical) futurology, arts, digitalization and radical imagination to envision more just futures. Besides that, Ouassima is a PhD Candidate in Political Science (FU Berlin) and a fellow and visiting researcher at Yale University. She studied Public Policy at the Hertie School Berlin and American University Beirut, and Middle Eastern Politics in Marburg and Amman.
She was guest lecturing in Kuala Lumpur, Cape Town and Nijmegen. Her work focuses on empowerment strategies, security discourses, disruptive practices and critical Muslim Studies. Her favorite questions to ask is 'Why not?' and 'What if?'. As a moderator and speaker, Ouassima is known for her energizing and critical interventions in discussions and creating a space for disruption and reflection. In a nutshell: Ouassima is concerned with everything just presents and futures