Biography:
I was born in the Galilean village of Tamra in 1980, Palestine. I graduated in 2005 with distinction from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. I participated in a student exchange program in Stuttgart, Germany, at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, where I produced an outdoor installation “Christmas in Palestine”, with a tree and stones.
I lived and worked in Jerusalem, constantly seeking to develop my talent and to build my career as an artist. I participated twice in A.M. Qattan’s Annual Young Artist of the Year Award. In 2006 I received an honourable mention for my works, and in 2008, I won second prize. Between the years 2006 and 2008, I awarded international art residencies in Italy, France, Turkey, and Germany. Currently I’m pursuing a scholarship for master’s degree in fine arts, specialising in social practice, at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, USA. I’ve been nominated in Palestinian magazine as "Artist Of The Month" for May 2009. I worked as an instructor of workshop for children and women in crises in art galleries in Palestine. (W.Y.)

Work in the exhibition:
Stomach Pain V (video 46 min. and poster)
The inside, the outside
The hidden, the shown
The protection from publicity…
Settled deeply in my memories, my behavior and my self portrait…
I see it in any father and daughter walking down the street…
I have stomach pain… mom
I worked in a shelter for girls who suffered from domestic violence. The girls age range between 12-18 years old. Most of the girls comes from poor crouded neighborhoods of jerusalem. They lived under difficult impossible conditions. they needed to sleep all together with parents and sisters and brothers in the same room, in a large family. In result it’s hard to notice what a little girl is going through, specially if she lives in a concervative society like the arabic society, where people don’t talk about what is real going at home between the family members.
The title "Stomach pain": it has been defined by the girls that they use to give hints to some of their family members, in this case will be the mother, like the little girl that i worked with. She tried to make her mom notice what she is going through by saying "mom, I have stomach pain", instead of saying “mom please save me from dad, he is doing bad things to me.” (W.Y.)