A Palestinian visual artist and professor, born and living in Gaza till April 2025, Maisara specialises in drawing and fine arts. He graduated in visual arts from An-Najah National University in Nablus (1998) and earned a Master’s degree from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Zamalek, Cairo (2011). He has also taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza.

Since October 7, 2023, he has been carrying out a daily project titled I Am Still Alive, in which he draws one or more characters each day representing his emotions and his situation in besieged Gaza. This project, somewhere between an intimate testimony and a cry for survival, becomes an act of resistance in the face of war, communication blackouts, and occupation.

Within ANFAA/IDEAS, Maisara will continue to share his stories “without having to conform to any norm in telling them, while diversifying the media through which [he] tells them. The objectives of ANFAA fully reflect [his] principles, as they focus on the importance of highlighting alternative and individual narratives, in order to transcend the normative narratives surrounding Palestinian experiences.”

Maisara Baroud

Researcher