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Mona Hatoum is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London.
Mahmoud Taha is a Jordanian artist, potter and ceramicist noted for integrating calligraphy into his ceramics and is regarded as the leading ceramicist in the Arab world.
Jananne Al-Ani is an Irish-Iraqi artist.
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Wendy McMurdo specialises in photography and digital media. In 2018 she was named as one of the Hundred Heroines, an award created by the Royal Photographic Society to showcase global female photographic practice.
Paola Yacoub is an artist based in Berlin and Beirut.
Khairat Al-Saleh, born in Jerusalem and educated in Syria and Egypt, is a noted painter in the Hurufiyya movement and a ceramicist, glassmaker and printmaker.
Jumana El-Husseini, was a Palestinian painter and sculptor born in Jerusalem, who later lived in Paris. She won many medals and has an extensive international exhibition record. Jumana El-Husseini died in her home in Paris on 11 April 2018 at the age of 86.
Lamia Joreige is a Lebanese visual artist and filmmaker. She received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Since the late 1990s, her works have been widely displayed. She is a co founder and co director of the Beirut Art Center. In 2011, Sandra Dagher and Lamia Joreige organized “Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center” at New York City's New Museum.
Helen Sear is a British mixed media artist specialising in photography and moving image.
Ala Younis is a research-based artist and curator, based in Amman. Younis initiates journeys in archives and narratives, and reinterprets collective experiences that have collapsed into personal ones. Through research, she builds collections of objects, images, information, narratives, and notes on why/how people tell their stories. Her practice is based on found material, and on creating materials when they cannot be found or when they do not exist.
Jack Persekian is a Palestinian artist and curator from Jerusalem. He is of Armenian descent and a United States citizen.
Tarek Al-Ghoussein, was a Kuwaiti multi-genre artist best known for his work that investigates the margins between landscape photography, self-portraiture, and performance art. His work moved away from subjects of land, belonging, nostalgia and barriers and instead gravitated toward the metaphorical transit to his ancestral homeland - Palestine. He moved between abstraction and the explicit conditions found in certain places.
Jumana Emil Abboud is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem.
Shereen Audi is a Jordanian visual artist.
Rula Halawani is a Palestinian photographer and educator who lives and works in Jerusalem.
Mahmoud Obaidi is an Iraqi-Canadian artist whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
Rafa al-Nasiri was an Iraqi painter, draughtsman, print-maker, educator and author whose works with a social and political message resonated with the Iraqi public in the mid-20th century. He was also very influential in encouraging young artists to take up print-making.
Ammar Khammash is a Jordanian architect, designer and artist. His work is based on the integration of building designs with nature and the surrounding environment. His projects helped revive Pella and Jordan Valley by creating two rest stops.
Riccardo Matlakas(rɪˈkɑːrdoʊ mætˈlɑːkəs/ in English, or /riˈkardo matˈlakas/ in Italian) born 26 January 1982 in Naples, Italy born Riccardo AttanasioPezzella is an Italian artist based in London who works in various media such as performance artist, painter, drawing, installation artist and sculptor. His notable performance include Pyjamas Party, Melting Borders and The Mass Protester, Street art at Borgo Universo. Notable Street Art is "the Space Ship" at "Borgo Universo", Aielli, Italy.
