Hagar Ophir is a multidisciplinary artist trained as a historian, stage designer, and dancer. Her work establishes history as a space to reimagine and actualize alternative possible presents, moving beyond divisions instituted between tenses, nation-states, and ideologies. Ophir often works collaboratively to create knowledge through art and education projects. Her recent projects have appeared in Berlin in two solo exhibitions, Bound with the Living The Archive Room (Diffrakt, 2024) and Recalling History Bundled with the Living (Soma Art, 2023), and in the work Letter of Demand (LABA fellow exhibition, 2023). In 2020, in collaboration with five artists and teachers, Ophir founded mitkollektiv, an intersectional arts education collective, and the art education project Reimagine Jetzt! She co-leads workshops at HKS and Bard College Berlin, and her work has been published in Revista de História da Arte, the Jerusalem Quarterly, and elsewhere. Ophir lives in Berlin.

"Straightforward, innovative, and historically grounded, Golden Threads is a must-read for every Jewish and Muslim household; Azoulay sends a loud yet gentle invitation to parents, in today's moment of global political violence, to remember and cherish traditions of living together. Inspired by her Algerian father's stories and driven by a will to reclaim lost histories, this illustrated book, set in 1920s Fès, Morocco, follows five young girls from Jewish and Muslim artisan households as they strive to remember histories of social cohabitation and protect their rich ancestral artisanal heritage from foreign abuse and industrial destruction."
--Dr. Aomar Boum, Professor and Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies at UCLA, and author of Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa

"For families yearning to see a time when Jews and Muslims lived together, supported each other, and celebrated the work of artisans, Golden Threads is one of the few that succeeds in portraying such a time."
--Lorelei R. Brush, Historical Novel Society