Mohammad Hawajri

Mohammad Hawajri is a Palestinian artist born in 1976 who lives and works in Gaza. He broke onto the Gaza arts scene in the late 1990s with solo shows sponsored by the French Embassy. He co-founded the Visual Arts Programme of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society and helped found the Eltiqa Group for Contemporary Art, where he teaches. He studied at Darat al Funun's Summer Academy, won its Young Arab Artists prize in 2000, and was an artist-in-residence there in 2012.