[1][2] Her multimedia practice includes works on paper, collage, sound, video, sculpture and installation.
[3] Waheed uses news accounts, extensive research and personal histories to critically examine multiple issues including: covert power, mass surveillance, cultural distortion and the traumas of displacement caused by colonialism and mass migration.
[5] She has complex ties and relationships to North America, the Middle East and South Asia.
She grew up within the gated compound of Saudi ARAMCO in Dhahran.
[3] At 34, Waheed received the Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Canadian Mid-Career Visual Artist.