Some people walk through life gathering facts; Meryem Chagraoui gathers meanings. She writes as one who has lived several lives — the artist, the advocate, the quiet observer, and the restless dreamer — each leaving its trace in her prose, each whispering through her painted lines. Her work is less a résumé of places than a constellation of moments: an ever-moving search for the essence of art, truth, and the unspoken.

Born to languages — Arabic, English, French, and Turkish — she learnt early that every tongue hides another universe. Perhaps that is why her words carry both clarity and mystery, her sentences breathing between translation and revelation. Across pages, podcasts, and digital worlds, Meryem speaks of what it means to feel deeply and think endlessly.

Her voice found one of its first sanctuaries in Meer Magazine, where she wrote not simply about art but from within it. In essays like “Between Creation and Collapse: The Artist’s Inner Autopsy” and “Surrealism: Reality and Imagination in Art and Poetry," she explored pain as a palette and transformation as a medium. Her reflections drift between Vincent van Gogh’s torment and the silent courage of women confronting societal mirrors. Every sentence feels like an incision — tender, deliberate, luminous.

But Meryem does not confine her art to paper. In her podcast “About Things", she gives voice to thought itself — an intimate dialogue between intellect and intuition. Each episode unfolds like a long night’s conversation with one’s own shadow: the kind that questions, challenges, and comforts. The podcast, part reflection, part rebellion, journeys through her writings, rare philosophical texts, and the quiet pulse of existence.

Outside the creative sphere, her professional path traces a delicate balance between structure and soul. As an application agent at Great Wall Agency, she guides students toward education abroad, ensuring that every detail of their applications is both precise and promising. Before that, she worked in the language of systems—as an academic advisor, a grant writer for UN-affiliated projects, and a CEO assistant connecting investors across the digital Web3 frontier. Yet even in the most technical roles, Meryem carried her poetic sensibility — reading between algorithms, finding humanity within process.

Her journey through humanitarian work deepened that empathy. As a volunteer listener on 7Cups, she held space for the voices of others — a quiet act of revolution in a world too loud to listen. With Asylum Links and Smile Movement, she translated words and emotions across cultures, bridging the dissonance between exile and belonging.

Art remains her first language. She has written over six hundred poems, painted abstract worlds of colour and ache, and continues to see art as both confession and communion. “True creation,” she once said, “is not about beauty but about breathing in what hurts until it turns into light.”

Her academic work echoes that same transformation. At the International Civil Strategy Symposium of Marmara University, she presented her research on how digital landscapes reshape leadership and human connection within NGOs — a fusion of intellect and intuition that defines her approach to every discipline she touches.

Today, Meryem moves between mediums: writing, painting, producing, advising — always reaching for that thin thread that connects inner life with the outer world. To read her work or listen to her speak is to feel seen in one’s own contradictions — ambition and fragility, logic and longing, silence and song.

She lives by the sea, walks with her thoughts, paints with her heart, and writes with the quiet urgency of someone translating her soul into every form available to her.

For Meryem Chagraoui, art is not an escape — it is the mirror of being, the pulse of the invisible, the one place where truth dares to speak in colour.re.