Awards
2019 Visible Award Finalist
2018 KADIST CIRCLE AWARD Winner
2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice – one of the 5 finalists
Press
2020
Shahin, Mariam, ‘The Arts Come Home to Bethlehem’, AramcoWorld, (January 2019)
2019
Inaugural Exhibition of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem’, A M Qattan Foundation, (July 9, 2019)
Srouji, Dima, ‘The Steadfast Spirit of Bethlehem’, Harpers Bazaar, (June 26, 2019)
Magazine paper copy, no link available.
Wallace, Lewis, ‘In Palestine and Beyond, Tear Gas Takes Environmental Toll’, Environmental Health News, (May 28, 2019)
Wallace, Lewis, ‘Human resilience and ecological resistance in the tear gas capital of the world’, Environmental Health News, (May 20, 2019)
2019 Visible Award Finalist
2018 KADIST CIRCLE AWARD Winner
2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice – one of the 5 finalists
Press
2020
Shahin, Mariam, ‘The Arts Come Home to Bethlehem’, AramcoWorld, (January 2019)
2019
Inaugural Exhibition of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research in Bethlehem’, A M Qattan Foundation, (July 9, 2019)
Srouji, Dima, ‘The Steadfast Spirit of Bethlehem’, Harpers Bazaar, (June 26, 2019)
Magazine paper copy, no link available.
Wallace, Lewis, ‘In Palestine and Beyond, Tear Gas Takes Environmental Toll’, Environmental Health News, (May 28, 2019)
Wallace, Lewis, ‘Human resilience and ecological resistance in the tear gas capital of the world’, Environmental Health News, (May 20, 2019)
"اختتام مهرجان "ايام فلسطين السينمائية""، وكالة معا الاخبارية (١٠ تشرين الأول، ٢٠١٩)
"أيام فلسطين السينمائية تناقش صورة المرأة في الأفلام،" العرب، (١٨ أيلول، ٢٠١٩)
"الاحتفال بافتتاح المعرض الأول لدار يوسف نصري جاسر للفن والبحث في بيت لحم"، مؤسسة عبد المحسن قطان (تموز ٢١، ٢٠١٩)
2018
Shahin, Mariam, ‘The Seed Queen of Palestine’, Al Jazeera, (December 10, 2018)
Goodfellow, Melaine, ‘How Palestine’s biggest film festival defies wall, roadblocks and a tiny budget’, screen daily (November 22, 2018)
‘Public assembly – Visible Award 2019’, Lafayette anticipations (November 16, 2018)
‘The ten shortlisted projects for the 2019 Visible Award’, Visible (November 16, 2018)
Lema, Luis, ‘ En Palestine, Sur les traces d’Apollon’, Le temps (November 3, 2018)
‘5th Palestine Cinema, Days Festival Launches in West Bank’, The Palestine chronicle (October 19, 2018)
Asfour, Nana, ‘When All Else Fails, There’s Culture’, The New York Times(October 16, 2018)
‘Chimurenga Collective Awarded Vera List Center’s 2018-20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice’, Brittle Paper (October 8, 2018)
‘Chimurenga Receives the Vera List Center’s 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice’, Art and Education (October 5, 2018)
Greenberger, Alex, ‘Chimurenga Named Winner of Vera List Center’s 2018–20 Jane Lombard Prize for Art and Social Justice’, Art News (October 4, 2018)
2017
Jackson, Eve, ‘In the Palestinian Territories: Hope and Resistance Through Culture’, France 24 (1 December, 2017)
2017 Chaval, Marion, ‘À Bethléem, la culture entre espoir et résistance’, France 24 (1 December, 2017)
Jackson, Eve, ‘In the Palestinian Territories: Hope and Resistance Through Culture’, France 24 (1 December, 2017)
2017 Chaval, Marion, ‘À Bethléem, la culture entre espoir et résistance’, France 24 (1 December, 2017)
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, ‘Our house in the middle of our street’, Spike Magazine
Scarpa, Elena, ‘Elena Emily Jacir Will Transform her Family Home in Bethlehem into an Art Center’
‘Dar Jacir: Casa Familiar de belén con más 100 años de antiguedad convertida en un espacio residencial y cultural’, Federación Palestina de Chile (July 19, 2017)
El-Saeed, Yomna, ‘Palestinian artist to transform family home to cultural hub’, Egypt Today (June 8, 2018)
Kufur, Katrina, ‘Pledging for a West Bank Art Centre’, Harpers Bazaar Arabia (May 27, 2018)
Ferraioli, Mariacristina, “Emily Jacir lancia un crowdfunding per trasformare la sua casa a Betlemme in centro d’arte”, Artribune (26 maggio 2017)
Neuedorf, Henri, ‘Palestinian Artist Emily Jacir Plans to Transform Her Family Home Into a West Bank Art Center’, Artnet News (May 23, 2017)
Dong, Jia, “Emily Jacir Launches Crowdfunding Campaign for New Art Center in Bethlehem’, Art Asia Pacific (May 25, 2017)
Jacir, Emily, ‘Dar Jacir’, Kickstarter (May, 2017)
Lectures / Talks
“Global Voices: Conversations with the Jane Lombard Fellows”, If Art is Politics: Vera List Center Forum 2019 (26 October 2019). Participants: Emily Jacir, Annemarie Jacir, Hassan Muamer, Moderator: Kaelen Wilson Goldie. Hosted at The New School, New York.
2018 ‘Artists' Philanthropy and Social Responsibility’, Art Basel (June, 2018) Emily Jacir, Artist, Founding Director, Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research; Matteo Lucchetti, Exhibitions and Public Program Curator, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, and Artistic Co-Director, Visible Project, Utrecht; Zina Saro-Wiwa, Artist, New York
2018 “Jerusalem Lives,” Emily Jacir presentation. Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies, New York
2017 "Resistance”, Lecture by Emily Jacir, Academy of Fine Art, Oslo, Norway
2017 “The Clock Tower at Jaffa Gate, Sheikh Suleiman Jacir, the Jerusalem Hebron Road, and other disappearances”; Lecture by Emily Jacir. Site/Border: The Fragility of Narration Clark Colloquium, Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA