Kamal Boullata (1942-2019) was a painter and writer. The recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship in 1993 and 1994 and a Ford Foundation grant in 2001, Boullata was elected as a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg/Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2012. He is the author of four books on Palestinian art and the editor of several books on modern poetry and contemporary culture.