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Investigations
Interview: Ibrahim Khazzaka on Ceramic Practice, Cross-Cultural Work, and Making as a Way of Knowing
Featured by the Pima County Public Library for Arab American Heritage Month, Ibrahim Khazzaka traces his path from Beirut to Tucson — and the role ceramics plays as material practice, cultural processing, and threshold between the intuitive and the structural.
ibrahim khazzaka
Apr 72 min read
We are people of accumulation, and therefore, ironically, of waste
A geography of displacement traced through objects carried and abandoned across Beirut, Dubai, New York, Tucson, and Maine. On what accumulation reveals about identity, loss, and the material logic of becoming.
ibrahim khazzaka
Sep 22, 20256 min read
On Gold Luster and Pink Floyd: Insights for 2026
A reflection on in-glaze luster reduction, the Islamic Golden Age, and what it means to trace a material history with your hands. What the chemistry teaches about time, failure, and the persistence of beauty across nine centuries.
ibrahim khazzaka
May 22, 20253 min read
Lovers and Servants at the Gate of Dawn
On being a Lebanese ceramic artist inside an American MFA program. A personal reckoning with the archetypes of longing and duty, and what the institution asks you to become at the threshold between cultures.
ibrahim khazzaka
May 7, 20258 min read
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