Visual Arts Coverage in Daily Newspapers in Gaza Strip: 2019

Visual arts in Palestine have a powerful diversity of aspects that portray several historical crises that influence artistic work. Visual art is a modern research topic in Palestine and has not been studied in advance from a journalistic and media point of view, despite the role of Palestinian art in disseminating the Palestinian cause and defending its identity, locally and globally. This study concentrated on the reporting of visual arts in the Gaza Strip, a small coastal city in Palestine, where people live in isolation after being under siege for 15 years and suffering from high population and numerous crises, such as unemployment, poor health care, and several air attacks from Israel's occupation in short periods of time in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2021. Gazans were restricted in their movements from Israeli colonialism in addition to Egyptian regime. The study explored the existence of visual arts coverage in daily newspapers in the Gaza Strip in Palestine from January 1 to December 31, 2019. The findings, built on data gathered from content analysis of three newspapers (Al-Ayyam, Al-Hayah-Al Jadida, and Felesteen) and eight in-depth interviews which it employed to investigate the practices of Palestinian journalists in how they covered cultural art and visual arts in Gaza Strip, and explore their experiences and perspectives on the significant role of visual arts in documenting the cultural Palestinian identity, all done through mixed methods.