Mohammed Al Hawajri

Mohammed Al Hawajri
Film director, Fine artist, Painter
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv, Fine arts

Mohammed Hawajri (b. 1975, lives in Gaza) studied drawing and painting at the YMCA in Gaza. In addition to local personal exhibits, Hawajri has shown his work internationally, and is one of the founders of the Fine Art programme in the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in the Gaza strip as well as the Eltiqa Group for Contemporary Art. Hawajri works in a wide and fluctuating range of media - paintings, sculpture, video art, photography -, his choice frequently determined by such everyday matters as which materials happen to be available at a given time in the restrictive conditions in which Gazans live.

Selected filmography:
?Molokhia' (2008)
CHILDREN OF FIRE (2009, 3'14min)

Source:
www.goethe.de/ins/eg/prj/abs/k11/you/en8320075.htm

Partners

  • Arterial network
  • Media, Sports and Entertainment Group (MSE)
  • Gens de la Caraïbe
  • Groupe 30 Afrique
  • Alliance Française VANUATU
  • PACIFIC ARTS ALLIANCE
  • FURTHER ARTS
  • Zimbabwe : Culture Fund Of Zimbabwe Trust
  • RDC : Groupe TACCEMS
  • Rwanda : Positive Production
  • Togo : Kadam Kadam
  • Niger : ONG Culture Art Humanité
  • Collectif 2004 Images
  • Africultures Burkina-Faso
  • Bénincultures / Editions Plurielles
  • Africiné
  • Afrilivres

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