Category: Palestine
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Nadine Khoury is an art advisor, curator and writer based in Dubai. With roots from Palestine and Syria, she moved around the Gulf and North America while immersing herself in various cultures along her path. Nadine’s passion for the Arts, led her into various branches of the art world. Nadine’s journey began with managing galleries…
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Dalia Ali is a Jordan-based Palestinian visual artist. She received a Bachelor of Science in Art and Design and a Master of Architecture from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT in Boston, USA. Her passion for art started at an early stage and her years in Boston exposed her to the work of many international artists.…
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Nour Taher is a Palestinian artist who was born and raised in Jordan. Her artistic journey started at Concordia University, where she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts in 2008. One of the central themes in her art is the exploration of self-identity and introspection. Through her self-portraits, she delves into the layers of…
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Nasrin Abu Baker is a multifaceted artist who works with various media, such as installations, paintings, and video art. Her artistic expression is influenced by her use of diverse materials, such as ready-made objects, industrial materials, textiles, tar, threads, wood, photographs, lighting, and more. Her works invite the viewers to enter a unique world that…
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The famous Palestinian artist was born on March 16th 1935in the town of Jaffa in Palestine. At the age of 13, in 1948, shewas among hundreds of thousands of Palestinians that witnessed the tragedy of being forced out of their homes andtowns by Jewish forces in order to create Israel. In 1959 Tamam Al-Akhal married…
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(1935 – 2016) She was born in Haifa, to Persian parents. She was the great-granddaughter of Baháʼu’lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, although she was not a member of the Baháʼí Community. Maliheh Afnan moved to Beirut with her family in 1949. She received a BA from the American University of Beirut and an…
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(1932 – 2018) Jumana El Husseini was born in Jerusalem on April 2, 1932, to Jamal El Husseini and Nimati al-Alami, members of two prominent Jerusalem families. On her father’s side, her links to Jerusalem extended back to at least the 13th century. She had six brothers and five sisters, including Serene Husseini Shahid, and…
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(1906 – 1997) Sophie Halaby (b. June 26, 1906, in Jerusalem or Kiev) was a professional Palestinian watercolor artist whose life spanned most of the 20th century. Her primary subject matter was the landscape of Jerusalem, unscarred by foreign occupation and urban development. As the first Arab woman to travel to Paris in the 1920s…
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(1940 – 2022) Laila Shawa was born on 4 April 1940 in Gaza, Mandatory Palestine, eight years prior to the 1948 Nakba and the founding of the State of Israel. Shawa was well educated; she attended boarding school at the Leonardo da Vinci Art Institute in Cairo from 1957 to 1958, then went to the…
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( 1893 – 1940) Karimeh Abbud was born in Bethlehem. Her father Said Abbud, was working as a teacher in Bethlehem, after the family had moved from Khiam, in South of Lebanon to Palestine. At the turn of the century, he became pastor of the Lutheran church for the following five decades. Karimeh was the…
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(1934 – 2005) Juliana Seraphim is a Palestinian-born painter. She was a refugee in the 1950s, and later lived in Lebanon. Seraphim was born in 1934 in Jaffa, Mandatory Palestine. She was among the first waves of displaced Palestinian refugees to move to Beirut, Lebanon in 1952. She was 14 when her family fled first…
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Born in 1990, Yasmin Dasouki is a Palestinian artist and art educator. She holds a BA in Arts and Design from the University of Jordan. Her series of artwork are all expressive artwork of her emotions and experiences throughout her journey. Her work is filled with symbols, metaphors. Playing with the proportions, mediums, showing the…
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Art is her life journey! A Palestinian, born in Jerusalem, currently living in Dubai. Her modern abstract and Religious art is A Call for Peace, from the Holy Land to the Holy Land to all the ends of the earth. Her Hometown Ramallah, Palestine where she lived till age 21, had a great impact on…
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Born in 1970, in Palestine. Through a documentary aesthetic, her photographic work addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home; it deals with the loss of home and the fight against that loss, but also with the restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity…
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Faten Nastas Mitwasi was born in 1975 in Bethlehem. She was inspired by her father, Fawzy Nastas, a prolific sculptor. She received an MFA from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem in 2011. She started working at Dar Annadwa Cultural Center in 1998 as the art coordinator, curating exhibitions and organizing courses. She…