Rana Nazzal Hamadeh (she/her) is a Palestinian artist and researcher living on unceded Anishinabe Algonquin land in the city colonized as Ottawa. Her interdisciplinary arts practice focuses on settler-colonialism, exploring its impact on time, knowledge, food, and movement. Her short films Something from there, 2020 and we would be freer, 2023 explore the relationship between land and indigeneity and have screened internationally. Rana holds an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University. She is a Research Analyst for Firelight, providing research support to Indigenous Nations and organizations across Turtle Island, and since 2021 has worked with Palestinian prisoner support organizations in the occupied West Bank.