1969 born and lives in Lebanon.

Ziad Abillama studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and Amherst College, USA. The artist states that he was reborn in the US during the first Gulf War in 1991, and later returned to Lebanon where he now lives and works.

Of his work "Untitled" (Arabes) (2011), he says: "it stages the collapse of the dialectic between Self and Other, at the latest stage of Western imperialism. It is not a historical moment, but a crisis in philosophy, beyond the political."