BBC News Arabic featured Hazem Harb on its weekly arts programme فن للحياة (Art for Life) in a report published on 7 March 2025, under the Arabic headline حازم حرب يثبت الذاكرة الجماعية في مواجهة اندثار الهوية, which translates as Hazem Harb anchors collective memory in the face of eroding identity.
The BBC introduces Harb as a visual artist based in Dubai who carries with him the suffering of Gaza, where he was born and where he learned art. The report explains that he tries to summon the material elements of Palestinian collective memory in an attempt to fix the present in place and protect it from being altered or falsified in the future. The programme airs on BBC News Arabic television on Sunday evenings and is shared on the channel's YouTube and social accounts, carrying the work to a broad Arabic speaking audience beyond the art world.
That idea of preservation sits at the heart of Harb's practice. After leaving Gaza he studied in Rome, taking his MFA at the European Institute of Design, and settled in the UAE. Working as a researcher, he collects photographs, negatives and maps and reassembles them through collage layered with geometric precision, a visual excavation that resists both nostalgia and the fetishisation of displacement while inviting a rethinking of history. His recent series include Reformulated Archaeology and Dystopia Is Not a Noun. Hazem Harb is represented by Tabari, Gate Village Building 3, Podium Level, DIFC.
