Moad Musbahi is a Libyan artist and curator. His work uses exhibition-making, video-installation and creative writing to understand migration as a social process and form of knowledge production. He has developed projects with the Libyan Studies Center, the Sharjah Architecture Triennial and the Royal College of Art among others.

The Zawiya is a building designed as both a tomb and a school, they are connected to the past through the dead buried within them, and those that visit and pay their respects to them. A traffic of people who have left behind a rich archive of family histories and social events that are storied within these spaces and are constantly retold orally. The zawiya is thus a community space in which history is performed and heard, which the project seeks to investigate, with the hope to stage a series of performances and events within them.