Shuruq Harb was born 1980 in Ramallah, Palestine. She earned an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom in 2006. She completed her B.A. in philosophy in three years at Earlham College, IN, U.S.A. (2002), and went on to study photography at Focal Point-the Visual Arts Training Center in Vancouver, Canada (2003). She was a finalist for the Hassan Hourani Young Artist of the Year award in 2004 and has exhibited her work in Germany, Italy, U.K. and the Middle East.

An emerging artist, Harb uses photography to reconstruct rather than document reality. Her photographs are often imaginary interpretations that re-stage reality in a style that is both surreal and intimate.

Harb is also an aspiring writer. Her first essay “Notes from a Palestinian Girl” was published in Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1996. Most recently her review “Summer 2006, Palestine” as published at the Electronic Intifada.