Lamia is a performer, researcher, translator, and activist. Her work as a researcher focuses on colonialism today, climate change and aesthetics, and feminism outside of Western paradigms. Lamia has directed research projects for HaRaKa Platform since 2013 and performed with the company since then at renowned venues including Theater Der Welt (Mannheim), Cite de la Culture (Tunis), and Hebbel Am Ufer Theatre - HAU (Berlin). She was HaRaKa’s representative in the pan-African archive symposium in 2014 (Mannheim), co-directed ‘Arab Dance Caravan’ platform at Tanzmesse (Dusseldorf), and most recently starred in the performance triptych ‘In 50 Years Or So’ which premiered at the inaugural Sharjah Architecture Triennial in 2019, on the occasion of Suez Canal’s 150th anniversary