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Ja’afar Tuqan

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Ja'afar Tuqan (19 January 1938 – 25 November 2014) was a Palestinian architect noted for designing the municipality of Amman in Ras al Ayan, the Royal Automobile Museum, The Jordan Museum and the Yasser Arafat Museum.
In 1991 he was the recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his design of the a Children's Village in Aqaba, Jordan. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Palestinian Art Court - Al Hoash.
He is son of Palestinian poet Ibrahim Tuqan and nephew of poet Fadwa Tuqan.

First Name
Ja'afar
Last Name
Tuqan
Occupation
Architect
Years Active
1960-2014
Active in
Amman

Jack Persekian

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Jack Persekian (b. 1962) is a Palestinian artist and curator of Armenian descent. Persekian is the founder of Anadial Gallery and Al-Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the founding director of the Sharjah Art Foundation with responsibility for the Sharjah Biennial. In 2016, Persekian was awarded the Palestine Order of Merit for Culture, Sciences and Arts by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

First Name
Jack
Last Name
Persekian
Occupation
Artist, Curator,
Years Active
1980-present
Active in
Jerusalem

Jackie Salloum

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Jacqueline Reem Salloum is a Brooklyn based artist and filmmaker of Palestinian and Syrian descent. Her multi-media based artwork focuses on documenting histories and memories of people, including her family, that have been fragmented by displacement and exile.

First Name
Jackie
Last Name
Salloum
Occupation
Filmmaker,
Years Active
2003-present
Active in
Brooklyn

Jalal Ariqt

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Jalal Ariqat (1953-2013) was a Palestinian artist who did recycled art.

First Name
Jalal
Last Name
Ariqat
Occupation
Artist,
Years Active
1973-2013
Active in
Cyprus

Jasser Abu Rbe’a

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Jasser Abu Rbe'a (b. 1963) is a painter, sculptor and poet from Kuseife in the Naqab. In his work he uses natural materials and materials from his own personal world related to the Bedouin heritage and culture.

First Name
Jasser
Last Name
Abu Rbe'a
Occupation
Artist, Sculptor, Poet
Years Active
1988-present
Active in
Kuseife

Juliana Seraphim

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Juliana Seraphim is a Palestinian artist from Jaffa. Her family fled to Lebanon in 1949. Seraphim’s visual language is characterized as having complex layers of overlapping lines and improvisational dream-like imagery.

First Name
Juliana
Last Name
Seraphim
Occupation
Painter
Years Active
1960-1990s
Active in
Beirut

Jumana El Husseini

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Jumana El Husseini (2 April 1932-11 April 2018) was a Palestinian painter and sculptor who lived in Paris. She studied painting, sculpture and ceramics in Beirut and Paris. Noted for figurative paintings of Palestinian women and geometric houses in Jerusalem and Jericho, her style evolved from realistic to geometric and, since 1987, to abstract, with wavelike overpainted drawings evoking Arabic calligraphy.

First Name
Jumana
Last Name
El Husseini
Occupation
Painter, Sculptor
Years Active
1956-2018
Active in
Paris

Jumana Emil Abboud

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Jumana Emil Abboud, b. 1971, is a Palestinian artist living and working in Jerusalem. Abboud has used drawing, video, performance, objects and text in her work which deals with memory, both personal and collective history, loss and resilience.

First Name
Jumana Emil
Last Name
Abboud
Occupation
Artist
Years Active
1998-present
Active in
Jerusalem

Jumana Manna

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Jumana Manna (b. 1987) is a visual artist working primarily with film and sculpture. Her work explores how power is articulated through relationships, often focusing on the body and materiality in relation to narratives of nationalism, and histories of place.

First Name
Jumana
Last Name
Manna
Occupation
Visual Artist, Filmmaker,
Years Active
2013-present
Active in
Berlin

Jussuf Abbo

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Jussuf Abbo was a Palestinian-Jewish artist active mainly in Germany.

First Name
Jussuf
Last Name
Abbo
Occupation
Sculptor
Years Active
1913-1953
Active in
n/a