Cultuur Gent

The cultural service of the city of Ghent
Belal Khaled ©Michiel Devijver

Belal Khaled

Belal Khaled is a Palestinian calligraffiti artist from Gaza. He was one of the first graffiti artists of his birthplace and established the Gaza Graffiti Team.

He has worked with Chinese activist Ai Weiwei for the documentary Human Flood and has also created artworks in the slums of Zimbabwe and in a refugee camp near the Syrian-Turkish border. He is the creator of Palestine’s largest mural entitled ‘Childhood Besieged’ and the largest Arabic calligraphy mural in the world (in Istanbul).