Rula Halawani

Rula Halawani (born 1964) is a Palestinian photographer and educator who lives and works in Jerusalem.

Early life and education She was born in East Jerusalem and received a BA in photography from the University of Saskatchewan and an MA in photographic studies from the University of Westminster.

Halawani's photography is focused on Palestinian life and the political conflicts of the area. Emmanuel d’Autreppe, writing for AWARE Women Artist, suggest Halawani's "first works reflect the weight of everyday life and the inequity of restrictions as well as the state of siege, its large-scale consequences and its media coverage, both local and international." Halawani experiments with infrared filters and X-ray technology in her works to create effects of distortion.

Her work has appeared in exhibitions in London, in Dubai, in Beirut, at Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation in Amman, at the Sharjah Biennial, at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, at the Noorderlicht festival, in Rome, at Le Botanique in Brussels, at the Busan Biennale in South Korea and at the Arab World Institute in Paris. Victoria and Albert Museum, London British Museum, London Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Darat al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman Nadour Collection, Germany