Shahd Rajab

Shahd Rajab is a 22-year-old artist and has lived in Gaza all her life. She was in her third year of studying at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology before the ongoing genocide began. Now, her university is destroyed like all the rest in Gaza.

In January 2025 – during the initial, temporary "ceasefire" – her family left the South after being displaced and came back in the Great March of Return to their damaged apartment in Gaza City, later displaced again in September when the IOF invaded Gaza City.

Shahd has said multiple times her creative practice is one thing that cannot be taken from her. “Til death, we do art.”