This research began with the Fear Soothing Bowl, a ritual of protection through prayers recited over water. I approached this ritual from multiple dimensions: as an object, as a protective practice, as spatial and imaginal relationality, and as a vessel of possible re-figuration connecting to the Euphrates river in Syria. How might generational practices of personal and communal protection be re-membered and sustained in conditions of war and exile?

Different reflections of this research flow through the video work A River Flows Through Dreams صلاة حلم. It weaves dream-like and imaginative states with prayers I learned for fear-soothing before drinking water. My grandmotherالله يرحمها showed me from the Barzakh how faith is passed continuously like a flowing river through generations while she was sleeping in my dream.

A River Flows Through Dreams صلاة حلم explores the interconnected impacts of displacement and finds steadfastness in acts of ritual, transmission, and preservation. It reflects on relationships to Islamic cosmology, water, and enduring beliefs.