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The Healing Art of Illuminating Tragedy

One of Palestine’s foremost artists paints his world.

Tayseer Barakat

December 29, 2023

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Tayseer BarakatTayseer Barakat was born in Jabaliye Refugee Camp in Gaza in 1959. In 1983, he graduated from the College of Fine Arts in Alexandria, Egypt. Directly afterward, he went to the village of Deir Ghassaneh in the West Bank, where he completed 15 works in one month and had his first one-artist exhibition in the open air of the village square.


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