Contributors: The Photographers
Taysir Batniji’s work has been shown in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, the US and Brazil, and is in the collections of the Centre Pompidou and the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris) and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Raed Bawayah has exhibited in Europe and the Middle East. His work is in several collections, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Jerusalem Foundation and the Kunstmuseum (Stuttgart).
Rula Halawani’s work has been exhibited in the Middle East, Europe and the US, and is in several collections including he Centre Pompidou (Paris), the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. A recipient of numerous awards, she founded the Photography Programme at Birzeit University, Palestine, where she teaches.
Noel Jabbour has exhibited in Europe, the Middle East, and the US. Her work is in collections worldwide, including The Israel Museum (Jerusalem), the Zabludowicz Collection and the Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saône),
where she was an artist in- residence in 2005.
Raeda Saadeh has participated in shows in Europe, the Middle East and the US. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Lorraine (Metz). She lives and works in Jerusalem.
Steve Sabella studied photography and visual arts in Jerusalem, the US and the UK. He has exhibited internationally and his work can be found in the collections of the British Museum and the Arab Museum of Modern Art (Doha).
Kai Wiedenhöfer is the recipient of numerous awards. His published work includes Perfect Peace, detailing Palestinian life between the two intifadas, Wall and The Book of Destruction, which documents the last war in Gaza.
Contributors: The Writers
Malu Halasa is a writer, editor, and curator based in London. Her books and exhibitions on Middle Eastern visual culture provide a complex view of the region. She is Editor-at-Large for Portal 9: Stories and Critical Writing About the City, a new bilingual journal on urbanism from Beirut.
Yael Lerer was born in Tel Aviv and is the founder of Andalus Publishing, an independent publishing house dedicated to the translation of Arabic literature into Hebrew. She is a co-founder of the Tajamu’-Balad (National Democratic Alliance) Party, and was a former Member of Knesset.
Christine Leuenberger is a sociologist and Senior Lecturer at Cornell University, in the US. A Fulbright Scholar in Israel and the Palestinian Territories in 2008 and a Fulbright Specialist at Tel Aviv University in 2011, she is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Scholar’s award to investigate the history and sociology of mapping practices in Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
Adania Shibli was born in Palestine in 1974 and lives between Ramallah and Berlin. She has published two novels and many short stories as well as narrative and art essays, and has twice won the Qattan Young Writer’s Award-Palestine. She also edited Dispositions (2012), a study of the work of several Palestinian artists. In 2009 she obtained her PhD in media and cultural studies from the University of East London, and has lectured in the UK and at Birzeit University, Palestine.
