JEFF O’BRIEN is an art historian. His research explores the political and visual representation of displaced and disappeared populations in Lebanon and Palestine. From 2018 to 2019 he was a fellow in residence of Modern and Contemporary Arab Art at Darat al Funun in Amman, Jordan. In addition to publishing widely, he has presented his work and given lectures in Jordan, Palestine, the United States and Canada. He is currently working on a book of his photographs from Lifta, one of the last remaining extant Palestinian villages within the 1948 border after Nakba. He holds a PhD in art history and works at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
