Birth: NULL/NULL/1945 Death:NULL/NULL/NULL
Born in Jerusalem in 1945; graduated in Fine Arts from the Beirut College for Women, Lebanon, in 1966; specialized in Ceramics at the Instituto Statale per la Ceramica in Florence, Italy, in 1972; earned an MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture from Oxford University, UK, in 1984; worked with the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology in Oxford; member of the League of Palestinian Artists; has participated in numerous local and international shows since 1974 (group and solo exhibits); was one of the founding members of the “New Vision” artists group, which was established during the first Intifada; founding member of the Al-Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem; member of the Sakakini General Assembly; lecturer on Islamic Art and Architecture at Birzeit University; headed the Birzeit University’s Founding Committee for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage which established the Tawfik Canaan Amulet Collection and Al-Qamariah Art Gallery in the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Center at Birzeit University; her art work is mostly ceramic based and sculpted paintings representing Palestinian scenery, people, and old family photographs; is co-author of Palestinian Village Home, published in association with the British Museum in London, and has written several specialized articles.
