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Dina Khalil is an Egyptian creative technologist and technical artist working across virtual, augmented, and mixed reality.

Her path into immersive technology began with journalism — studying at the American University of Kuwait, then pivoting toward new media and earning a Master's in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU's ITP program, where she focused on AR/VR, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. A UX/UI bootcamp at Columbia followed.

Her work explores identity, migration, and the act of inhabiting other perspectives. She has collaborated with Meta and Google, contributed to a Meta-backed AR experience at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, and is currently an Artist in Residence at Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, developing a narrative-driven mixed reality installation for Meta Quest 3.

She is CPACC-certified and treats accessibility not as a checklist but as a design principle embedded from the start. Her work has been recognized by the Telly Awards, the Communicator Awards, and the XR Distribution Market at the NewImages Festival in Paris.

She also judges and mentors across the XR community, including at MIT Reality Hack, AIVA, and the New York Short Animation Festival.



life as a timeline
  • AI, Tell Me Lies 2025
    was exhibited at the XR Women Global Museum’s Vibrancy as Praxis exhibition
  • Freedoom of the Press 2026
    was selected for the XR Distribution Market at the NewImages Festival in Paris. 
  • Artist in Residence 2025
    at Diriyah Art Futures in Riyadh, KSA.
  • Exhibited 2025
    one of my WebAR pieces at a gallery in Brooklyn, NY
  • Mentored 2025
    over 30 participants during the XR Design Challenge
  • Won an Award! 2024
    Freedoom of The Press won the Communicator's Award for 'Use of Emerging Technology' and 'Augmented Reality'
  • Judging 2024
    some more contests in the XR field
  • Joined Google 2023
    as a Technical Artist
  • Nexus Studios 2023
    hired me as a freelance technical artist for a super duper cool project (might be the highlight of my career as of now!)
  • Got CPACC Certified! 2023
    which was a lifelong aspiration of mine, helping me begin to make XR accessible
  • Finally Finished 2023
    Columbia’s super intensive UX/UI Bootcamp
  • Started Columbia University’s 2022
    UX/UI Bootcamp!
  • Mark Zuckerberg 2022
    talked about a project I was part of at Meta’s annual conference, Connect ‘22
  • Became a Judge 2022
    for a global AR contest led by Lenslist
  • Joined Meta 2021
    as a Technical Artist
  • The American Red Cross 2021
    accepted me as a volunteer front-end developer
  • Fell in Love 2020
    with assistive technology solutions and volunteered in a web-development workshop for the visually impaired as a teachers assistant
  • Moved to NYC! 2019
    To pursue my Masters degree at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program
  • Premiere of my first Documentary!
     2018
    I was chosen to showcase my work at Institut Français Du Koweit. It was about how smartphones are making us ...less smart
  • Became a Guest Lecturer 2016
    at the American University of Kuwait, and organized workshops on Adobe Premiere and AfterEffects
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  • University of Arts in London 2017
    is where I took a course in Video Journalism
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  • Started Designing Web Pages! 2016
    Nothing fancy here, just took an online course and began my coding journey
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  • Got My Bachelor of Arts degree. 2015
    Graduated from the American University of Kuwait with a BA in Journalism and Media, and a minor in Business Administration
  • Co-founded Guitars N’ Designs 2014
    which is a small business on the internet that sells guitars with drawings of famous music stars
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    Volunteered at Nuqat;     2013
    a non-profit organization for cultural development. Think of TED Talks but in Kuwait