John Halaka

an expert in painting, drawing, photography, documentary filmmaking, oral history, and modern and contemporary Palestinian art.

[2][3][1] His writing has appeared in edited anthologies, art catalogues, and academic journals, most often Jadaliyya.

[8][9] Halaka's artwork has been exhibited in Michigan; California; Alaska; Washington, D.C.; Palestine; Spain; and the United Kingdom.

[12][13] He also participated in the ongoing "I Witness Silwan" mural project in Batan al Hawa[14][15] and contributed to the major exhibition (and subsequent book) The Map Is Not the Territory: Parallel Paths—Palestinians, Native Americans, Irish (2013).

[16][17][18][19] He is past recipient of a Fulbright award to Lebanon, where he conducted oral history interviews among Palestinian refugees of multiple generations.