Hiba Shahtoot is a Palestinian Illustrator \ Graphic Designer born in Nazareth in 1997 where she currently lives and works. Hiba has completed her B.Des in Visual Communication in 2020 from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Hiba uses the medium of illustration as her main instrument of self-expression due to its ability to be incorporated into various visual mediums such as painting, print, animation, and more. Currently but not permanently, her works experiment with dissecting collective and personal experiences of raw and unprocessed emotions in order to render them into visual interpretations. Hiba’s works were exhibited at several exhibitions in Ramallah, Jerusalem, Haifa, Cairo and Taybeh, and her short film “Mirroring” won Best Directing at The Animatex Festival in 2020.