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Photojournalist Ahmed Jadallah was born in Palestine in 1970. He is the oldest of four brothers, who are also award-winning photographers. Jadallah studied science and worked as a teacher before joining a…

Often referred to as the "Father of Conceptualism in Saudi Arabia," Faisal Samra was born in Bahrain in 1956 he is a Saudi national. He graduated from École national supérieure des Beaux-Arts…

Born in Giza, Egypt, in 1961, Hazem Taha Hussein is an associate professor of visual communication design in the Faculty of Applied Arts at Helwan University, Cairo; chairman of the advertising department…

Born in Cairo in 1948, Huda Lutfi is both a visual artist and a cultural historian living and working in Cairo. She earned her Ph.D. in Arab Muslim cultural history from McGill…

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are Lebanese filmmakers and artists whose cinematic and visual art practices intertwine. Their films and installations emerge from a common concern with image making and storytelling. Hadjithomas and Joreige…

Lalla A. Essaydi was born in 1956 and grew up in Morocco and Saudi Arabia. She now lives in the United States, where she earned a B.F.A. at Tufts University and…

Mohamed Abdul Latif Kanoo was born, in Manama, Bahrain, in 1963. He is an artist, curator, and co-owner of Ghaf Gallery, established in 2006, the first independent visual arts space in…

Noel Jabbour was born in Nazareth, Palestine, in 1970. She studied art and photography at the Hadassah College of Technology and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She is…

Samer Mohdad was born in 1964 in Bzebdine, Lebanon, to a father who was an engineer and a mother who was a poet. After the Lebanese Civil War broke out, his…