Samira Badran

Tripoli, 1954

Samira Badran is a Palestinian visual artist. She studied at The Academy of Fine Arts in Cairo and Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. She has exhibited her work widely: White Box Art Center in NY, Al-Hoash-the Palestinian Art Court in Jerusalem, Jordanian National Gallery of Fine Arts, Modern Art Gallery in Baghdad, Biennial of La Habana, La Tramontana in Chaillé-les-Marais, Washington Museum of Women in the Arts, Musée du Luxembourg in Paris, Gemeetemuseum den Haag, Rafia Gallery in Damascus, Foreign Ministry of Berlin... She regularly teaches intensive drawing courses at the International Academy of Art- Palestine in Ramallah. She lives and works in Barcelona. MEMORY OF THE LAND is her first film.