[1][2] Asma Ghanem was born in 1991 in Damascus, Syria,[3] and raised in a refugee camp with her family.
Ghanem graduated from the International Academy of Art Palestine - IAAP (Ramallah, Palestine) and she received the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the ISDAT or École des beaux-arts de Toulouse [fr] (France).
[1][2][4] Ghanem started her career working on an experimental music project called Shams Asma (شمس أسمى).
I began recording different sounds – the sounds of machines, daily movements, silence, musical instruments, electronic sounds, etc, with an aim to criticize the transformation of lifestyles and the phenomenon of construction in Palestinian cities, focusing on the questions that arise around the audio-visual transformation of ugly, yet beautiful, independent yet occupied cities, as well as other contradictions.
[5]In 2014, she produced her first experimental album titled Fi Alard (في الأرض).