About the Artist 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.