Tareq Khalaf

design educator, filmmaker, and cultural activist

Tareq Khalaf is a design educator, filmmaker, and cultural activist based in Ramallah, Palestine.

Tareq's work and studies have taken him across Palestine and South Africa, grounding himself in restorative land practices in both geographies. He's interested in the affinities, sensitivities, and senses of belonging, and indigenous and seasonal ways of living. Through his work at Sakiya—Village of Ein Qiniya in Palestine—he is interested in shifting the space of education to rural Palestine, experimenting with different forms of liberatory education that promote s collaborative labor, farming, and a renewed connection to local landscapes, knowledge, and stories, drawing on the diversity and seasonality of land as companions for learning.