Tara Al Dughaither (b. Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) is a curator, writer, and sonic artist whose work explores the social and cultural performances of women in the contemporary Arab Peninsula. Rooted in feminist methodologies and poetic inquiry, her practice moves between sound, archive, and collective storytelling—often addressing undocumented histories and vernacular knowledge. She is the founder of Sawt Asura, an open-source digital library archiving Saudi women’s musical legacies as sites of memory, intimacy, and resistance. Al Dughaither draws from Gulf Futurism, Afro-Futurism, and Arabic poetic traditions to build frameworks that question dominant narratives, often staging research as performance and disruption. Her curatorial projects include Eid w Tahaweed (Ithra, 2022), Nothing As Planned, Yet We Sang (Saudi Modern, 2021), and contributions to Folk Futurisms at Delfina Foundation, where she has been in residence multiple times. She holds an MA in Culture, Criticism and Curation from Central Saint Martins, London, and a BA in Mass Communication from the American University of Sharjah. She lives and works between Riyadh and London.
