About Me
🎨 About the Artist:
Rooted in the lived experience of Palestinian displacement, this body of work uses acrylic paint to explore intergenerational trauma, cultural memory, and the quiet resilience of a people too often reduced to headlines.
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 resists stereotypes while celebrating the joy, beauty, and strength that persist across generations of Palestinians.
Influenced by early mentorship that framed art as a tool for truth-telling and dignity, each piece seeks to affirm what mainstream narratives often overlook: that Palestinians are not statistics—we are artists, caregivers, healers, and survivors.
The upcoming series centers on Gazan civilians—teachers, press workers, medical staff—ordinary people transformed by extraordinary circumstances. Through bold colour, layered texture, and symbolic form, these portraits offer not just representation, but reverence.
This is art as witness. Art as archive. Art as resistance—and love.