Born in Beit-Jala, Palestine in 1975. She received her BFA from the Bezalel Academy for Fine Art & Design in Jerusalem in 1998. She is Chair of the Arts and Crafts Department at Dar al-Kalima College in Bethlehem. In 2005 she curated the exhibition “Land, Peoples, Identities” which involved 16 Palestinian & Israeli artists. Her work has been exhibited in Japan, Germany, USA, and throughout the Middle East. Nastas is an installation artist who utilizes both "ready-made" and "hand-made" objects. Past works have incorporated Arabic and English pop songs, dear diary pages, mass-produced posters of landscapes, delicate pieces involving embroidery and crafted paper and recently, postcards made of precious olive trees and fragments of "permission papers". Her art isn't intended to be politically straight forward; her concerns are with the social, emotional, and psychological aspects of life that derive from the politically polarized environment in which we live.