Art of the Palestinian Poster

Malu Halasa

Malu Halasa is the literary editor of The Markaz Review and the coeditor of Sumūd: A New Palestinian Reader, (7 Stories Press, 2025). She curated the Art of the Palestinian Poster at P21 Gallery, for Shubbak 2025.

Aline Batarseh

Aline Batarseh is Palestinian from Jerusalem, and executive director of the collective Visualizing Palestine. She has more than 20 years of experience working with several Palestinian and international nonprofits focused on advancing gender equality, reproductive justice, children’s rights, mental health, social justice and collective liberation. Batarseh is the coauthor of Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation (Haymarket Press, 2024).

Dina Matar

Dina Matar is Director of the Centre for Global Media and Communications at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She works on the relationship between culture, communication and politics in the Middle East, with a special focus on Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. Prior to joining academia, Matar was a foreign correspondent for Reuters in the Middle East and an editor/analyst with a number of news agencies in Hong Kong, Europe and the US. Her latest coedited anthology is Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine through Contemporary Media, (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2024).

Vera Tamari

Vera Tamari is recognised as one of Palestine’s leading artists. Born in Jerusalem in 1945, she was a founding member of influential Al-Wasti Art Center in Jerusalem and the radical artists collaborations that provided the basis for Palestinian modern art, including, as well as the New Visions Art Group. She is a member of the League of Palestinian Artists and Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center. Tamari lectured on art at Birzeit University, where she founded the Virtual Gallery. She also created the Founding Committee for the Development of Cultural Heritage. Tamari has had solo exhibitions in Ramallah and Jerusalem and participated in numerous international group exhibitions.

Nadine Aranki

Nadine Aranki is a Palestinian curator, cultural worker, coordinator, facilitator, and content producer based in London. She was a Research Fellow at De Montfort University of Leicester focusing on cultural heritage, community needs, and cultural policies. Aranki has worked in the fields of culture, human rights, and education in Palestine and the UK. She co-curated The Many Lives of Gaza, a 2024 touring exhibition that has been shown in London, Birmingham and Norwich. She has written about Palestinian political posters for The Markaz Review.