John Halaka

John Halaka
Born	John Halaka 1957 (1957) El Mansoura, Egypt
Education	University of Houston
Movement	Palestinian art

John Halaka (born 1957) is an Egyptian-born American visual artist, documentary filmmaker, and Professor of Visual Arts at the University of San Diego in California. He is considered^{[ by whom? ]} 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. ^{[1] [2]} His father was Palestinian and his mother was Lebanese. They moved to the United States in 1970. ^[2]

He received his Master's of Fine Arts degree in 1983 from the University of Houston in Texas. ^[3]

He has taught at the University of San Diego since 1991. ^{[2] [3] [1]}

His writing has appeared in edited anthologies, art catalogues, and academic journals, most often Jadaliyya. ^{[4] [5] [6] [7]} He has also been interviewed for and profiled in journalistic and academic reports on contemporary Arab art. ^{[8] [9]}

John Halaka (top right) among artists at the California African American Museum in 2009.

Artistic works

Halaka's artwork has been exhibited in Michigan; California; Alaska; Washington, D.C.; Palestine; Spain; and the United Kingdom. ^{[3] [10] [11]} He was featured in the inaugural exhibit of the Arab American National Museum. ^{[12] [13]} He also participated in the ongoing "I Witness Silwan" mural project in Batan al Hawa ^{[14] [15]} and contributed to the major exhibition (and subsequent book) The Map Is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths—Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish (2013). ^{[16] [17] [18] [19]}

He is past recipient of a Fulbright award to Lebanon, where he conducted oral history interviews among Palestinian refugees of multiple generations. ^[20] He was also awarded a U.S. Scholar fellowship from the Palestinian American Research Center for 2018–2019 for his project Vanishing Harvest: Meditations on the End of Palestinian Agriculture. ^[21]

Select bibliography

• "Sketches from the Margins of Marginalized Communities: Lessons in survival, resilience and resistance acquired from Palestinian refugees," in Migration Across Boundaries: linking research to practice and experience, edited by Parvati Nair and Tendayi Bloom (2016).

References

1. "John Halaka – Station Museum of Contemporary Art" . Retrieved 2022-01-23.
2. Being Palestinian : personal reflections on Palestinian identity in the diaspora. Yasir Suleiman. Edinburgh. 2016. ISBN   978-0-7486-3403-3. OCLC   963672141.
3. "Our Faculty: John Halaka". College of Arts and Sciences - University of San Diego. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
4. Migration across boundaries : linking research to practice and experience. Parvati Nair, Tendayi Bloom. London: Routledge. 2016. ISBN   978-1-315-59529-0. OCLC   948602987.
5. Halaka, John (2016). "Between Home and Homeland: Reflections on New Paintings from the series Eltifaf-Bypass by Rafat Asad". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
6. Halaka, John (2016). "Meditations From The Shadows of History: Reflections on Paintings from the series "Shadow of the Shadow" by Bashar Khalaf". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
7. Halaka, John (2013). "Ghosts of Comfort and Chaos". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
8. "إذاعة صوت فلسطين - جاليري 18/03/2017". vop.ps. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
9. Archive, Asia Art. "New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century". aaa.org.hk. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
10. "Portraits of Denial & Desire, Photographs by John Halaka". Islamic Arts Magazine. 24 March 2014. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
11. "Artist Lecture Series – John Halaka | Nevada Arts Council". www.nvartscouncil.org. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
12. "John Halaka. In/Visible". universes.art. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
13. In/visible : contemporary art by Arab American artists : Yasser Aggour, Rheim Alkadhi, Doris Bittar, Abdelai Dahrouch, Mariam Ghani, John Halaka, Nabila Hilmi, Emily Jacir, Johammad O. Khalil, Amina Mansour, Sumayyah Samaha, Athir Shayota, Helen Zughaib, Afaf Zurayk. Salwa Mikdadi Nashashibi, Arab American National Museum. Dearborn, Michigan: Arab American National Museum. 2005. ISBN   0-9767977-0-4. OCLC   64140041.
14. Proctor, Rebecca Anne (30 July 2021). "As Palestinian residents of Silwan face evictions, large public artwork protests - Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East". www.al-monitor.com. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
15. Bishara, Hakim (28 July 2021). "Murals Watch Over Jerusalem Neighborhood, a Silent Protest Against Displacement". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
16. Painter, Dagmer (September 2013). "The Map Is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths—Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish". Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. pp. 38–39. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
17. "The map is not the territory" : parallel paths--Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish : a touring art exhibition. Jennifer Heath. Boulder, Colorado: Baksun Books. 2015. ISBN   978-1-887997-32-4. OCLC   921870016.
18. "The Map Is Not The Territory: Parallel Paths — Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish – Arab American National Museum". 2016. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
19. ArtFacts. "The Map is not the Territory | Exhibition". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
20. "John Halaka (author page)". Jadaliyya - جدلية. Retrieved 2022-01-23.
21. "Professor John Halaka Selected as a PARC 2018-2019 U.S. Research Fellow - University of San Diego". www.sandiego.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-23.