Online Editor of The British Journal of Photography.

Author Babylon, Albion, published by Saqi Books, Spring 2025.

Contributing Writer at WePresent.

Founder of The Road to Nowhere.

Freelance // bylines in The Guardian, Dazed, GQ Middle East, Aperture, Atmos, It’s Nice That, Huck, The New Arab, Service95 & more.

Press // Dazed, NY Mag, Vogue, GQ Middle East, It’s Nice That, Port, Khamsa

Previously Staff Writer at It’s Nice That, Digital Editor of AZEEMA Magazine, Producer at Counterpoints Arts.

About

Dalia is a British-born Iraqi writer, editor, and producer based in London. She is mostly interested in writing and commissioning stories on emerging creativity from the SWANA region and diaspora, migrant narratives, and reporting on community-led stories from the margins.

She’s worked with Nike, Ugg, Converse, The ICA, TATE Galleries, The Southbank Centre, Autograph, Aperture Foundation, the Zaha Hadid Foundation, Sole DXB, BFI, the Barbican, Browns, The Edinburgh International Film Festival, London Migration Film Festival, Refugee Week, The Photographer’s Gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich and more.

Dalia is the founder of The Road to Nowhere, a magazine and digital platform that showcases new creative and cultural writing, art, and photography about second-generation immigrants, diaspora, and migration narratives. It intends to celebrate and scrutinise the global nature of our communities and what identity constitutes. Her debut non-fiction book was Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration. 

Charity work includes tutoring refugees at Paper Airplanes, volunteering with The Felix Project, and raising money for Health In Mind, Restless Beings, Counterpoints, Gaza Library, MAP, The White Helmets, MAG International, Choose Love, and the IRC. She was also a Migrant Aspiration Programme mentor at The Migrant Rights Network and mentors journalism with the Aziz Foundation.