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Taysir Barakat

تيسير بركات

born 1959

Born in Jabalia camp in the Gaza Strip in 1959, he studied fine arts in Alexandria and returned to hold his first exhibition in Deir Ghassana. A founder of the New Vision artists’ group in 1987, and of the al-Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem in 1997 with Vera Tamari and Sliman Mansour, he represented Palestine at the São Paulo Biennial in 1996.

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document · PASSIA, the Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs

Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory

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