Ashraf Fawakhry was born and raised in Al Mazra’a village in Akka district. He received his BA at the WIZO Academic Centre for Design and Education in Haifa and then worked as a design teacher at the Bezalel Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem. Fawakhry’s practice utilizes a wide range of mediums, materials and techniques that range from video work to installations to drawings– often using graphics as a tool to represent conceptual art. With Pop Art as an influence, he has produced subversive artworks that critique the political and social restrictions on Palestinians post 1948. He often uses the donkey as an iconic metaphor to question the Palestinian sense of self and the cultural struggle that accompanies it.