Ala Buisir is an award-winning visual artist & journalist. Born in Ireland with Libyan roots, Ala is a graduate BA in Photography from TU Dublin and MA in Journalism from DCU. In 2020 she was awarded a Creative Ireland & Dublin City Council Diversity Public Art Commission. Curated by Photo Museum Ireland (formerly Gallery of Photography Ireland), Buisir worked with members of the Muslim community living in Ireland for more than 20 years to create a series of portraits, presented as Public Art installations across Dublin. Working in a socially-engaged, collaborative way, Buisir makes visible the life stories and values of an under-represented community in contemporary Dublin.

She is currently undertaking a PhD by practice at the University of Limerick, investigating the ‘othering’ of Muslim women in the Western world by societal Islamophobia and Western tropes of Islam. Her aim is to inform participatory arts-based interventions to challenge Islamophobia against Muslim women, amplify Muslim women’s voices and create avenues for digital storytelling in which these voices are agents in their narrative.

Her work has been purchased for the National Photography Collection at Photo Museum Ireland.