Jacqueline Reem Salloum is a Palestinian/Syrian American artist and filmmaker. She received her MFA from New York University. Her work has been featured at

Sundance Film Festival The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute. It is the largest independent film festival in the United States, with more than 46,66 ...

. She is the director and editor of the award-winning film,

Slingshot Hip Hop ''Slingshot Hip Hop'' is a 2008 documentary film directed by Jackie Reem Salloum that traces the history and development of hip hop in the Palestinian territories from the time DAM pioneered the art form in the late 1990s. It braids together the ...

, the first feature-length documentary about the Palestinian Hip Hop scene which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Salloum directed and edited Planet of the Arabs, an experimental short on Hollywood’s negative depiction of Arabs and Muslims through the decades. Inspired by Dr. Jack Shaheen’s book
Reel Bad Arabs
the award winning short film was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival and has also been exhibited in art galleries and museums globally and used in classrooms as an educational tool on stereotypes in the media. In 2017 Salloum was a

and taught the class

Salloum’s art and video work have been exhibited in the US and internationally including,

Mori Art Museum The is a contemporary art museum founded by the real estate developer Minoru Mori (1934–2012) in the Roppongi Hills Mori Tower in the Roppongi Hills complex both of which he built in Tokyo, Japan. The exterior architect of the museum's gall ...

, Japan; Reina Sofia, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London;

Palazzo delle Papesse A palace is a grand residence, especially a royal residence, or the home of a head of state or some other high-ranking dignitary, such as a bishop or archbishop. The word is derived from the Latin name palātium, for Palatine Hill in Rome which ...

Centre for Contemporary Art, Sienna, Italy, Wallspace Gallery, New York an
Void Gallery
Ireland as well as film festivals; IDFA, New Directors New Films, Tiff kids, DoxBox Syria and Beirut International Film Festival.

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at "Dreams of a nation", Columbia University. Living people American people of Palestinian descent Palestinian film directors Palestinian women film directors American film directors American women film directors Syrian artists Palestinian women artists Syrian women artists Palestinian contemporary artists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women {{Palestine-bio-stub