Najib Joe Hakim has worked as a documentary photographer, artist and photography instructor.
He is the recipient of the 2020 Rebuilding Alliance Storytellers Award for these three projects. In 2019 he was an Art Fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and his digital collage "Send Wings instead of Arms" placed 1st in a global competition sponsored by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. He is also a past nominee for the US Artist Fellowship. Hakim is President of the Board for the Network of Photographers for Palestine and a founding member of Class Conscious Photographers.
Hakim is a graduate of both Georgetown University’s Master’s Program in Contemporary Arab Studies, as well as the Thunderbird Graduate School of Global Management. He obtained his BA in Philosophy and History from the University of Virginia.
