Narratio is a global platform for youth empowerment through creative expression, publishing content from over 18 countries across three continents.
Narratio is a global platform for youth empowerment through creative expression, publishing content from over 18 countries across three continents.
2025 Narratio Fellowship
In 2025, Narratio celebrated its sixth annual Narratio Fellowship by welcoming a new cohort of Fellows to its year-long program. This U.S.-based initiative continued its mission of building cohorts of resettled refugee youth to shape and influence global conversations around displacement and cultural production.
The 2025 program was led by artists-in-residence Ameen Mokdad and Rayan Mohamed ’20. Fellows selected objects from The Met’s Ancient West Asian Art Department and created poetic pieces reflecting on the memories and experiences those objects evoked.
Since its founding, the Narratio Fellowship has reached over 2.5 million individuals across 17+ countries through exhibits, publications, and performances at institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie’s, the United Nations, and Harvard University.
Fellow Finan Amare performs their poem at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Facilitator Justo Triana at the Bronx Documentary Center
Metropolitan Museum staff across the Education, Object Conservation, and Ancient Near East departments held sessions with the Narratio Fellows centered on storytelling and caretaking around objects.
Staff include Sarah Graff and Kim Benzel (Ancient Near East), Anne Grady (Object Conservation), Darcy-Tell Morales (Education) Anna Serotta (Object Conservation), Emily Blumenthal (Education), and J-F Laperouse (Object Conservation).
Narratio Fellows from Richmond and Syracuse met for the first time during the annual trip to New York City. Fellows held a performance and took part in a seal rolling workshop at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and presented their visual art installation at the Palitz Gallery.
Fellow Florence Tamari reads her poem at the entrance of the Ancient Near-East Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Founder & Poet Ahmed Badr introduces the Narratio Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fellows visit the Bronx Documentary Center, New York and are guided through its exhibits, photography darkroom, the Tim Hetherington library and more. Right: Portraits made of the Fellows by the BDC’s Ricardo Jesus Partida
The Northside Learning Center’s Mark Cass enjoys the view from The Edge
Fellows visit The Edge
2022 saw the addition of four Fellowship alumni to the program team, in addition to three new artists-in-residence, and five facilitators across both Fellowship sites in Syracuse, NY, and Richmond, VA.
Robert and Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Ancient Near East, Education, & Object Conservation Departments
Virginia Office of New Americans
North Side Learning Center
ReEstablish Richmond
SU Newhouse CODE^SHIFT
The Narratio Fellowship is made possible through the generosity of Bob & Margaret Patricelli, ReEstablish Richmond, Syracuse University College of Arts & Sciences, and the North Side Learning Center.
Get in touch:
