Contemporary Arab women artists. Increasing public awareness of the works of Arab artists and revealing the myriad variations within contemporary Arab art, including traditional geometric imagery would be an open window to our perception on arab's world.

Raeda Saada-Palestine:
Palestinian artist born in Um el Fahem, lives and works in Palestine. Raeda Saadeh is one of Palestine’s emerging artists, and winner of "The Young Artist of the Year Award," granted by the A.M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah in 2000. Her work has focused on her experiences as a Palestinian woman and her relationship to her homeland. She is concerned with issues of displacement and identity, and more specifically those related to gender. Saadeh’s most recent work is in the form of installations and performances. She finds herself using a variety of local mediums ranging from wedding dresses to skeletons, raw meat to plastic bags.




Etel Adnan-Lebanon:
The Lebanese-American writer and artist Etel Adnan is a grande dame of Middle Eastern literature, a collector of worlds and languages. Having grown up in a Lebanon bridging Europe and the Arab world as the daughter of a Greek mother and a Syrian father, she moves easily among cultures and languages. What critics often misconstrue as ‘homelessness’ lets her, now in her 80s, view conditions in Lebanon through the eyes of a dweller in Beirut as well as through those of an outsider. Her material is drawn from the Lebanese civil war and its consequences: ‘Beirut sticks to me like hot wax, even in slumber,’ she writes in her novel ‘Of Cities and Women’.




Buthayna Ali - Syria:
Born 1974, Damascus SY lives and works in Canada - SyriaAfter studying Fine Arts at the University of Damascus, Syria, Buthayna moved to Paris for her graduate studies to obtain a Diploma in painting from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts of Paris (ENSB-A) along with a Masters degree (DEA) in History of Islamic Art from Paris IV Sorbonne, Paris.
Buthayna Ali taught painting at the faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus, Syria for 6 years.

In all her art works, she focuses on the contradiction of her milieu; one can strongly sense her desire of getting closer to the society, its states, its concerns and its inconsistencies.
Her work of art is purely related to the physical as well as mental experience of the space within the work itself.
Her target is for people to interact with art work. It is a trial to break down many barriers, like the one between people and a classical work of art.






Susan Hefuna - Egypt:
Susan Hefuna is an artist of Egyptian/German heritage. She works in her art with digital photography and video installation. Through the exploration of her own diverse heritage she touches directly on issues that are critical to the inquiry of many comtemporary South African artists.






Asmaa Al Faioumi - Syria:
Born in Amman, Jordan in 1943, Asma Fayoumi is one of Syria's leading female artists. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus, her formative years as a painter occurred in the 1960s with the emergence of a particular school of abstraction that was lead by the Italian artist and instructor Guido La Regina.






Betool Fekaiki - Iraq:

Born in Baghdad, Iraq; Lives in London, UK. Her paintings convey a fantasy of eternalyearning. She prefers not to depict the swallow directly but rather to live through the life  of the migrant bird, thus stirring up feelings and memories. She participated in many solo and joint exhibitions in Europe and the Arab world.







B'chira Triki Bouazizi, was born in Sfax in 1964.






Najat Makki - United Arab Emirates

Najat Makki is a United Arab Emirates painter. She is one of the members of the Dubai Cultural Council





Lama Hourani - Jordan




Azza Fahmi - Egypt




Zoulikha Bouabdellah - Algeria






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Bchira Triki - Tunisia: