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List Of Palestinian Artists
The following list of notable State of Palestine, Palestinian artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are WP:ARTIST, notable and are either born in Palestine, of Palestinian descent or who produce works that are primarily about Palestine. A *Jussuf Abbo (1890–1953), printmaker, sculptor *Jumana Emil Abboud (born 1971), contemporary artist *Ruanne Abou-Rahme (born 1983), of the art duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme *Karimeh Abbud (1893–1955), artist, photographer *Hannan Abu-Hussein (born 1972), installation artist and video artist *Maliheh Afnan (1935–2016), visual artist *Laila Ajjawi (active since 2015), graffiti artist *Tamam Al-Akhal (born 1935), visual artist *Iman Al Sayed (born 1984), contemporary artist *Sama Raena Alshaibi (born 1973), conceptual artist *Nabil Anani (born 1943), painter, ceramicist and sculptor *Dana Awartani (born 1987), Saudi-born Palestinian painter, video artist, and sand mosaicist B * Nidaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Of Palestine
Palestine ( ar, فلسطين, Filasṭīn), Legal status of the State of Palestine, officially the State of Palestine ( ar, دولة فلسطين, Dawlat Filasṭīn, label=none), is a state (polity), state located in Western Asia. Officially governed by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), it claims the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip as its territory, though the entirety of that territory has been Israeli-occupied territories, occupied by Israel since the 1967 Six-Day War. As a result of the Oslo Accords of 1993–1995, the West Bank is currently divided into 165 Palestinian enclaves that are under partial Palestinian National Authority (PNA) rule; the remainder, including 200 Israeli settlement, Israeli settlements, is under Area C (West Bank), full Israeli control. The Gaza Strip has been ruled by the militant Islamic group Hamas and has been subject to Blockade of the Gaza Strip, a long-term blockade by Egypt and Israel since 2007. After W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bosniaks
The Bosniaks ( bs, Bošnjaci, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia, which is today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who share a common Bosnian ancestry, culture, history and language. They primarily live in Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo as well as in Austria, Germany, Turkey and Sweden. They also constitute a significant diaspora with several communities across Europe, the Americas and Oceania. Bosniaks are typically characterized by their historic ties to the Bosnian historical region, adherence to Islam since the 15th and 16th centuries, culture, and the Bosnian language. English speakers frequently refer to Bosniaks as Bosnian MuslimsThis term is considered inaccurate since not all Bosniaks profess Islam or practice the religion. Partly because of this, since the dissolution of Yugoslavia, ''Bosniak'' has replaced ''Muslim'' as an official ethnic term in part to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Halaka
John Halaka (born 1957) is a visual artist, documentary filmmaker, and Professor of Visual Arts at the University of San Diego in California. He is considered an expert in painting, drawing, photography, documentary filmmaking, oral history, and modern and contemporary Palestinian art. Education and publications Halaka was born in El Mansoura, Egypt, in 1957. His father was Palestinian and his mother was Lebanese. They moved to the United States in 1970. He received his Master's of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the University of Houston in Texas. He has taught at the University of San Diego since 1991. His writing has appeared in edited anthologies, art catalogues, and academic journals, most often Jadaliyya. He has also been interviewed for and profiled in journalistic and academic reports on contemporary Arab art. Artistic works Halaka's artwork has been exhibited in Michigan; California; Alaska; Washington, D.C.; Palestine; Spain; and the United Kingdom. He was feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Halaby
Sophie Halaby (1906–1997) was a Palestinian watercolourist who depicted Jerusalem and its surrounding landscapes. She was among the first Arab women to study art in Paris, and returned to her homeland to teach, paint, and criticize British and Zionist colonialism. Throughout her life, she supported and influenced later generations of Palestinian artists including Samia Halaby (no relation) and Kamal Boullata. Life Halaby was born to a Palestinian Christian father, Jiryes (George) Nicola Halaby, and a Russian Orthodox mother, Olga Akimovna Khudobasheva. Her parents met when her father was studying in Russia at the Kyiv Theological Academy, and moved back between Jerusalem and Kyiv until settling permanently in Jerusalem in 1917. They lived in Musrara, a well-off neighbourhood in Jerusalem's New City. Halaby had two siblings, and in later life would live and work closely with her sister Anastasia (Asia), who ran an embroidery workshop. Beginning in 1917, Halaby was educated at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samia Halaby
Samia A. Halaby (born 1936, in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian artist, activist, and scholar living and working in New York. Halaby is recognized as a pioneer of abstract painting. Since beginning her artistic career in the late 1950s, she has exhibited in museums, galleries, and art fairs throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America. Her work is housed in public and private collections around the world, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris), and the Palestinian Museum (Birzeit). She received her academic training in the U.S., Halaby and has been active in American academia, teaching art at the university level for over twenty years, a decade of which was spent as an associate professor at Yale School of Art (1972–82) She was the first woman to hold the position of Associate Professor at the Yale School of Art. She also taught at the University of Hawaii, Indiana University, the Cooper Union, the University of Michigan, and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Ghannam
Ibrahim Hassan Kheite (1930–1984), also known as Ibrahim Ghannam, was a Palestinian visual artist and painter. Born in the coastal town of Yajur near Haifa in Palestine, he lived in Tal Al-Za'atar refugee camp, north of Beirut in Lebanon. Biography Ghannam contracted Gout as a child and used a wheelchair throughout his life.Gannit Ankori, ''Palestinian Art'', Reaktion Books, 2006, p. 54. Thanks to a UNWRA nurse providing him with painting materials, Ghannam was able to continue painting. Ghannam depicted scenes of village life in Yajur, in a naïve style using bright colours and a meticulousness approach to detail reminiscent of the Islamic minaturists. Ghannam's choice to paint evocative village life, a far cry from his room overlooking an open sewer, and his subsistence diet of canned foods. In transcending his reality to paint vibrant rural scenes, he was able to preserve the visual memory of bountiful Palestinian countryside for a generation of children born in the refuge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asma Ghanem
Asma Ghanem or Asma Ghanem Miller ( ar, أسمى غانم; born 1991 in Damascus, Syria) is a Palestinian visual artist and experimental musician. She is best known for her documentary film ''Wall Piano''. Life and career Asma Ghanem was born in Damascus (Syria) 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 (France). Ghanem started her career working on an experimental music project called ''Shams Asma'' (شمس أسمى). About this, she says: In 2014, she produced her first experimental album titled ''Fi Alard'' (في الأرض). In 2015, her Photography received ''special mention'' in the ''Palest’In & Out'' festival, a festival to promote talented young Palestinian artists that it held in Paris (France) and organized by ''Institut Culturel Franco-Palestinien''. In 2016, her e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fathi Ghaben
Fathi Ghaben (; also spelled as Fathi Ghabin; 1947 – 25 February 2024) was a Palestinian self-taught artist and educator, whose paintings depicted Palestinian culture, resistance, and right of return. Early life Fathi Ghaben was born in Hiribya village in the Gaza Strip in 1947, Ghaben and his family experienced displacement many times due to Israeli occupation. He enrolled at Al-Azhar University in the 1960s but was unable to complete it because of financial issues. Seven of his paintings were on display at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, until the building was destroyed by a fire caused by an Israeli bombardment. One of his paintings is on display at the Ministry of Culture of Gaza. Ghaben was arrested in 1984 on charges of "inciting violence" by Israel. He was married to Faiza. He married her at the age of 19 and soon was the father of 8. After dropping out of primary school, Ghaben worked as a newspaper seller, for 15 years, and at a citrus orchard. Out of the chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanna Farah-Kufer Bir'im
Hanna Farah-Kufer Bir'im or Hanna Fuad Farah (born 1960) is a Palestinian artist, builder and architect who lives and works in Tel Aviv-Yafo and in the village of Bir'im. Biography Hanna Farah was born in village of Alijiah in 1960, to a Palestinian family who displaced from Kfar Bar’am. Many of his works, photograph, print and sculpture which deal with the history of the village and attempts to resettle it. He is an artist but, also engaged in architecture and design at the same time, between 1996 and 2008 he worked on the "New Kufer Bir'im" project, and designed the exhibition of Hila Lulu Lin at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2005). The name of the Kufer Bir'im was added to his signature as a second family name, in order to tie his identity to the village of his family, whose residents were expelled from it in 1948. The affair of the displaced people of Akrit and Bir'im was discussed extensively in the government, the Supreme Court and the Knesset, but has not ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostasy
Apostasy (; grc-gre, ἀποστασία , 'a defection or revolt') is the formal disaffiliation from, abandonment of, or renunciation of a religion by a person. It can also be defined within the broader context of embracing an opinion that is contrary to one's previous religious beliefs. One who undertakes apostasy is known as an apostate. Undertaking apostasy is called apostatizing (or apostasizing – also spelled apostacizing). The term ''apostasy'' is used by sociologists to mean the renunciation ''and'' criticism of, or opposition to, a person's former religion, in a technical sense, with no pejorative connotation. Occasionally, the term is also used metaphorically to refer to the renunciation of a non-religious belief or cause, such as a political party, social movement, or sports team. Apostasy is generally not a self-definition: few former believers call themselves apostates due to the term's negative connotation. Many religious groups and some states punish apostat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashraf Fayadh
Ashraf Fayadh ( ar, أشرف فياض, born 1980 in Saudi Arabia) is an artist and poet of Palestinian origin. He is the son of refugees from Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip and lives in Saudi Arabia. He was active in the British-Arabian arts organization, ''Edge of Arabia'', and organized exhibitions of Saudi art in Europe and Saudi Arabia. In November 2015, he was sentenced to death by beheading for apostasy. The Saudi court overturned the death sentence three months later, imposing an eight-year prison term with 800 lashes. Conviction for apostasy After an argument at a café, Fayadh was detained by religious police in Abha, released on bail, then rearrested and tried in early 2014. He was sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes. A Saudi appeals court returned the case to the lower court where a new judge was assigned to the case. On November 17, 2015, Fayadh was sentenced to death by beheading for apostasy. Evidence included several poems within his 2008 book ''Instruct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan
Nasr Abdel Aziz Eleyan ( ar, نصر عبد العزيز born 1941), is a Palestinian artist and a television interior designer/producer. He was born in the former village of az-Zakariyya, north of Hebron in the Mandatory Palestine. The town was captured by Israeli forces during the 1948 Israeli assault on Palestine. Nasr grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein as-Sultan near Jericho, where he began painting as a child. He studied fine arts and film in Moscow, Baghdad, Cairo and London. His daughter is film director Hanadi Elyan. He currently lives in Amman, Jordan where he teaches fine arts at the University of Jordan. Style Nasr is a figurative painter whose individual style is concerned with cultural traditions. His paintings depict the rural life of Palestinian farmers and the traditional Palestinian way of life. He simplifies his subjects with simple geometrical lines, creating both harmony and balance. Most of his paintings are oil on canvas. He did some water colors e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
