Ra’fat Ḥattab
Ra'fat Ḥattab (b. 1981) is a Palestinian performance and video artist from Jaffa. Raafat Hattab makes performative and video works using language and music to explore issues of identity and belonging. His practice layers iconographies of East and West and through double meaning, collapses the two spheres. Hattab weaves emblems of folklore and tradition into an imagined community, deviating from clear-cut geographical borders.
Raeda Taha
Raeda Taha (b. 1965) is an actress and playwright known for her plays "Where Can I Find Someone Like You, Ali?" and "36 Abbas Street".
Rana Abu Fraiḥah
Rana Abu Fraiḥah (b. 1990) is a filmmaker and videographer. Her best known work is the film In Her Footsteps which documents her family's story.
Raouf Haj Yehia
Raouf Haj Yehia (b. 1973) is an artist, researcher and curator currently based in Ramallah. He received a degree in sociology from Birzeit University in 2003 and then worked as a teaching assistant in the photography program there for three years. In 2006, he was awarded the UNIDEE artist-in- residency at the Fondazione Pistoletto, Citta Del Arte in Biella, Italy, and was an artist in residence at Funen Art Academy in Denmark in September 2008.
His conceptual projects include the Ghabash newspaper project in the Al-Ayyam newspaper and Zwaya magazine (Beirut) in 2005. Documentation of his Bread for Gaza project was exhibited in the No Holidays in Gaza exhibition at the Contemporary Image Collective in Cairo (2007) and in Mapping, Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates (2009).
Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Ruanne Abou-Rahme (b. 1983) is port of an artist duo with Basel Abbas. Together they work across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Their practice is engaged in the intersections between performativity, political imaginaries, the body and virtuality. Across their works they probe a contemporary landscape marked by seemingly perpetual crisis and an endless ‘present’, one that is shaped by a politics of desire and disaster.
Rula Halawani
Rula Halawani (b. 1964) is a Palestinian photographer and educator who lives and works in Jerusalem. Halawani is director of the photography department at Birzeit University. In 2016, she was given a residency fellowship at the Camargo Foundation, in Cassis.