Incé Husain

INCÉ HUSAIN

Incé Husain is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Western University, an independent journalist and board member of local independent press Antler River Media Co-op, and an artist. Her artwork - mostly ink drawings - often accompany her journalism work, the majority of which has focused on Palestine since fall 2023. In September 2024, she was awarded the Brian Beaton Prize in Journalism for Justice for the article “Under the rubble of our dreams”: Vigil honours university students killed by Israeli forces, as Western University graduation ceremonies unfold. Her journalistic process, which decries mainstream press' notions of ‘journalistic objectivity' and instead proposes a new framework for transparency between journalists and the communities they write with, for, and about, is detailed on her journalism portfolio The Unprecedented Times in her post ‘Beyond journalism'. Her ink drawing ‘Yet I dance', which accompanies her article Remembering the ‘Soul of Falasteen' Art Night, was printed on postcards by Embassy Cultural House to mark her first collaboration with Embassy. To learn more about her neuroscience research, listen to her podcast segment ‘Mapping it Out: The Cerebellum in Action' by Western's GradCast.

Recent Works

"Yet I Dance" Postcards, 2026, Photo credit: Incé Husain

"Cats of Gaza" and "From the River to the Sea" Postcards, 2026, Photo credit: Incé Husain

EDITORIAL TEAM

ONLINE FOUNDING EDITOR
Tariq Hassan Gordon

COFOUNDERS & CURATORIAL ADVISORS
Jamelie Hassan & Ron Benner

ADVISORY CIRCLE
Samer Abdelnour, Wyn Geleynse, Ira Kazi, Lorraine Klaasen, Olivia Mossuto, Diana Tamblyn, Judith Rodger, Ruth Skinner, Mary Lou Smoke, and Lucas Stenning

COORDINATING EDITOR
Mireya Seymour

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Blessy Augustine, Anahí González, Jared Hendricks-Polack, Jessica Irene Joyce, Shelley Kopp, and Jenna Rose Sands.

VIRTUAL TOUR
Andreas Buchwaldt

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OUR STORY

Artists Jamelie Hassan and Ron Benner and jazz musician Eric Stach founded the Embassy Cultural House (1983-1990) located in the restaurant portion of the Embassy Hotel at 732 Dundas Street in East London. In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Embassy Cultural House was re-envisioned as a virtual artist-run space and website.

The Embassy Cultural House gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the London Arts Council through the City of London's Community Arts Investment Program.

The Embassy Cultural House is thankful for the mentorship program established by Western University's Visual Arts department and the continued support of the students and Faculty of Arts & Humanities.

Our Partners

E M B A S S Y C U L T U R A L H O U S E . C A

The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is located on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, Lūnaapéewak, and Chonnonton peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Covenant Wampum and other treaties, colonized as London, Ontario. The ECH strives to create meaningful relationships between the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and our contributors. The ECH honours the stewardship of the many Indigenous peoples who have resided on these lands since time immemorial.