Afaf Arafat
Palestine, b.1938
Afaf after completing her secondary education in Jerusalem, received a scholarship in 1952 to study art at the Bath Academy in Britain, following her departure from Cambridge University. In 1971, she obtained another scholarship to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Tennessee in the United States. She worked as an art inspector at the Jordanian Ministry of Education, developed an art curriculum, and represented Jordan at the UNESCO Regional Conference on Art Education in 1976. Afaf held several solo exhibitions, participated in international exhibitions, received numerous awards.
