Lionis is a writer and cultural producer based between Athens and Manchester. Working at the intersection of visual culture and resilience studies, she is the author of books including Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film (I.B. Tauris, 2016/2022) and (ed) Comedy in Crises: The Weaponisation of Humour in Contemporary Art (Palgrave, 2023). Lionis is co-director of the pedagogical platform Artists for Artists, Senior Research Fellow at School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester and Chair of Exhibitions at Hunar Symposia.