BBC News Arabic featured Hazem Harb on فن للحياة (Fann lil-Hayat, "Art for Life"), its weekly arts programme, in a segment broadcast on 7 March 2025 and published online under the headline "حازم حرب يثبت الذاكرة الجماعية في مواجهة اندثار الهوية" — Hazem Harb anchors collective memory against the erasure of identity.
The segment introduces Harb as a visual artist based in Dubai who carries with him the experience of Gaza, where he was born and where he first learned art. Its framing is the argument that runs through the practice: that he sets out to summon the material elements of Palestinian collective memory in order to fix the present in place, and so guard it against distortion or falsification in the years to come. Fann lil-Hayat goes out on Sunday evenings at 19:05 GMT on BBC News Arabic television and streams on the channel's YouTube, where episodes are gathered under the hashtag #فن_للحياة.
Broadcast coverage on a network of the BBC's reach sits in a different register from the gallery and art-press attention Hazem Harb's archive-based work usually draws, and it carries the work to an Arabic-speaking audience across the region directly rather than through the art world. Hazem Harb is represented by Tabari Artspace.
