The tension between home and homeland is an ever-present subject that informs the work of many contemporary Palestinian artists. Since the beginning of the uprooting and fragmentation of the Palestinian people by an extended and expanding settler-colonial occupation nearly seventy years ago, the..
John Halaka
(photo credit Raeda Taha © 2012)
John Halaka is a visual artist, documentary filmmaker, and professor of Visual Arts at the University of San Diego. His creative work focuses on issues of displacement, memory, and identity construction. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship that enabled him to spend the past year in Lebanon recording oral histories with three generations of Palestinian refugees. His painting and drawings can be viewed at www.johnhalaka.com, while his documentary projects and video archives can be viewed at www. Sittingcrowproductions.com. He can be contacted at jhalaka [at] sandiego.edu.