Freedom is the painting that generates the most conversation—and the most discomfort. That was always the intention. The image is deceptively simple: a woman in a burqa balances a birdcage on her head. Inside are two birds of different colours. The cage door is open. Most viewers immediately begin to project their own narratives onto […]
Ya Kanada is perhaps the most personal painting in my collection. It sits at the exact intersection of who I am—a Palestinian living in Canada, carrying two histories, two languages, two ways of seeing the world. The Canadian maple leaf is one of the most recognizable symbols on earth. But what happens when you look […]
Euphoria began as an experiment—what would happen if one of the most famous embraces in Western art was reimagined through a Palestinian lens? The answer turned out to be far more powerful than I ever anticipated. Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss has always been about intimacy, about two people wrapped in a world of their own. […]
The story begins in Akka, Palestine, and continues through the refugee camps of Lebanon and into the diaspora. Painting became a sanctuary, a space to reclaim identity, honour heritage, and challenge erasure through visual storytelling. Created in the shadow of post-9/11 Canada, this work exists at the intersection of personal memory and collective history. It […]
