{"id":710,"count":1,"description":"<img class=\"size-full wp-image-25750 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Malak-Mattar.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"294\" \/>\r\n\r\nMalak Mattar, the artist, was born in 1999 in the Gaza Strip and grew up under occupation and the military siege. While artist-in-residence at An Effort in Central London (December 2023\u2013February 2024), she documented the genocide in her homeland through a series of mostly monochrome drawings and paintings. Mattar wrote and illustrated the bestselling children\u2019s book Sitti\u2019s Bird (2021). In defiance of strict travel restrictions, Mattar has lectured in universities across the USA (2020\u201321) and she has had solo exhibitions in Palestine (2015 onwards); Costa Rica (2015); Great Britain (2017, 2018, 2023, 2024); Sweden (2018); USA (2019, 2021); Germany (2020); Lebanon (2021); Portugal (2022) and Italy (2022). Most recently, Malak had two concurrent exhibitions in London, and her monumental painting No Words was shown for the first time (March 2024).","link":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/authors\/malak-mattar\/","name":"Malak Mattar","slug":"malak-mattar","taxonomy":"authors","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/authors"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/authors"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?authors=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}