Fáros Fellows
Albi supports a cohort of flagship artists whose very being and creative drive embody the values we seek to promote in the world. These artists may be writing books, performing comedy, or weaving baskets. We’ll support them wherever their creative drive takes them.
2025 - 2026 Fáros Fellows
Neta Weiner
Musician and Performance Artist
is a musician, actor, director, and activist from Jaffa. He is the founder and lead singer of System Ali, a multilingual Palestinian-Jewish hip-hop band, and serves as the artistic director of Beit System Ali, a social-educational movement. His award-winning stage works have been performed at festivals and theaters worldwide, and he has acted in various Israeli films and TV series. He also composed the soundtrack for the acclaimed teen drama Madrasa. Weiner recently released his second solo album, Pinui Binui, featuring lyrics in Hebrew, Arabic, Yiddish, and English. A martial artist for over 20 years, he is a licensed Wing Tsun Kung Fu instructor. Currently, he teaches at Tufts University and is a guest scholar at Brandeis University’s Schusterman Center, where he explores language, performance, and socio-political transformation through music, spoken word, dance, and theater.
Selected Works
Mushon Zer-Aviv
Designer and Writer
is a designer, researcher, educator, and media activist based in Tel Aviv. His work explores the tensions between data, maps, and power, shaping his design, art, activism, and teaching. His research, Friction and Flow, develops a design theory of change. He co-founded Shual.com, a foxy design studio; SpeculativeTourism.com, audio tours through future cities; Normalizi.ng, a project on perceptions of normality; AdNauseam, a privacy-focused ad-clicking tool; and YouAreNotHere, a tour of Gaza through Tel Aviv streets. He has also worked on civic engagement initiatives with the Public Knowledge Workshop. Mushon designed maps for Waze and led design for Localize.city. His work has been exhibited at MoMA, SFMOMA, Ars Electronica, and Manifesta, earning awards from Prix Ars, Rhizome, and others. A senior faculty member at Shenkar, he previously taught at NYU, Parsons, and Bezalel, and serves on the board of Land for All.
Carmen Elmakiyes Amos
Artist, Photographer and Writer
is an artist, photographer, and activist dedicated to social change through art and photography. She was named one of Forbes magazine’s 50 most influential women and received the Israeli Pride Decoration for her activism following October 7. She is the founder and CEO of Shovrot Kirot (Breaking Walls) and Lo Nechmadim–Lo Nechmadot (Not Nice), and a second-generation descendant of the Black Panthers movement. She also founded the Adiah Project to document testimonies of those affected by radiation treatments for ringworm. Her exhibitions include "The Women of South Tel Aviv," "Lionesses," "Boys on Plastic Chairs," "Do Not Cast Me Away," and "Thirty Seconds." Her work has been showcased in galleries, media, and the Knesset. She actively leads social struggles, including poverty, police violence, women's rights, public housing, LGBTQ+ issues, the Yemenite, Mizrahi, and Balkan children affair, and the return of hostages.
Selected Works
Ala Dakka
Actor, Singer and Screenwriter
Born and raised in Be’er Sheva, Ala Dakka has been a relentless force in television, cinema, and theater for the past decade. He has been nominated three times for Best Supporting Actor at the Ophir Awards and twice for Best Actor in television. His notable work includes Fauda 3, Seven Days in Entebbe, Beyond the Mountains and the Hills, Monkey House, Naffas, and many more. In recent years, Ala has expanded into writing and creating. His debut play, Manegalian Passport, won Best Play and two additional awards at the Akko International Theatre Festival. He also wrote a short film and co-wrote Red Sky, a new series for Reshet, alongside Ron Leshem (Euphoria). Currently, he is working on his first feature film, Summer vs. Us, which follows a group of Palestinians and Israelis uniting to protect the nature around them.
2024- 2025 Fáros Fellows
Tamer Nafar
Rapper
is world renowned as the first Arabic-language rapper, and his band DAM was the first ever Palestinian hip hop group. Launched in 2001, DAM became a household name for Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Territories, and the diaspora. Today, Tamer is expanding his artistic career to include film and television acting, theater acting, English-language rapping, and writing. He is working on an imagined memoir and a graphic novel, both of which have gained the interest of major publishers. His English EP is signed with a major record label. Tamer has always pushed boundaries in his work and as our flagship artist, he’ll have more resources to continue expanding and pushing in new areas.
Selected Works
Noam Shuster-Eliassi
Comedian
is an intersectional Israeli comedian. In addition to the Albi-supported documentary Coexistence, My Ass! being made about her, Noam is also in the process of creating her one-woman show for Audible, which brought down the house night after night at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2023. She is also working on two scripted TV shows for Israeli prime-time and is performing her comedy regularly online and onstage in English, Hebrew, and Arabic (with a touch of Farsi). Noam has already managed to crack up a wider swath of audiences than perhaps any comedian in the region - we’re honored to help her crack more barriers and cross more borders, and reach new soon-to-be fans.
Selected Works
Yossi Zabari
Writer and Spoken Word Artist
is a writer and spoken word artist who has conquered the Internet time and again with viral videos that are catchier than the Black Plague. The author of several books of poetry, Yossi is also a theater actor, stand-up comedian and proud gay father. Yossi has spent much of the past year on tour in Europe, criss-crossing the continent from Reykjavik to the Rhine, delivering his direct and daring spoken word to international audiences increasingly told that solidarity with the peoples of Israel-Palestine must be divided. The proceeds from the tour are going directly to the Hostages and Missing Families Forum. When Yossi fills the stage with his whole-self presence — Yemeni-descended, Arabic-inflected, queer — no assumptions are left unchecked, while every expectation is surpassed; the movement to imagine a different day after is strengthened by the power of his words and his deeds.
Selected Works
Addam Yekutieli
Conceptual Artist
is a multidisciplinary artist that deals with issues of cross-cultural encounter, historical and personal narratives and memory. Offering an aesthetic of ambiguity, his projects aim to foster intuitive and empathetic connections and explore the possibilities and re-imagination of larger social and political realities. With an illustrious career as a street artist, Addam previously made art under the alias Know Hope, and was known by many as the “Israeli Banksy.” After revealing his identity some years ago, Addam has been making a transition from street art to more conceptual art made in studio, for protests, and in community with other artists and activists. Presently, he is traversing an intersection of activist and art spaces and is the subject of a new documentary “The Abstract and the Very Real,” by Omer Shamir. We are thrilled to support Addam’s iconic imagery and prophetic artistic vision in the various forms that it currently takes and will take.
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