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Multi-Media Artist Mona Hatoum

Considered the Arab World’s best-known female artist in the West, the London-based Palestinian Mona Hatoum was born in

Public opinion is valued when it comes to the various Palestinian leaderships. Examples include shutting down Al Jazeera for

Born to a father of Palestinian and Armenian heritage in Bethlehem (Palestine), Joe Hockey is a member of the Australian

Born and raised in Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp, reporter Mohammed Omer is the winner of the 2007 Martha Gellhorn Prize for

With only $71 in his pocket, Farouk Shami left Palestine in 1965 and arrived in the U.S. to achieve the “American Dream.”

The billionaire co-founder of one of the Arab World’s largest building corporations, Hasib Sabbagh was born to a prominent

The son of the late Queen Alia (Palestinian) and the late King Hussein of Jordan, Prince Ali is the youngest member of the

He was quite possibly the best known political cartoonist in the Arab World at the time of his murder in 1987. Still

Born to Palestinian refugee parents, Suheir Hammad immigrated to Brooklyn, New York by way of Amman, Jordan at the age of

An American-Palestinian film director, Cherien Dabis introduces American audiences to a Palestinian mother and her son in her