Akram Zaatari is an artist who lives and works in Beirut. Author of more than 30 videos, and video installations, Zaatari has been exploring issues pertinent to postwar Lebanon, particularly the mediation of territorial conflicts and wars through television, the logic of religious and national resistance, and the circulation and production of images in the context of a geographical division of the Middle East.

Co-founder of the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut), he based his work on collecting, studying, and archiving the photographic history of the Middle East notably studying the work of Lebanese photographer Hashem El Madani (1928 - ), as a register of social relationships and photographic practices. His ongoing research was the basis for a series of exhibitions and publications such as "Hashem El Madani: Studio Practices" (with Lisa Lefeuvre) "Mapping Sitting" (collaboration with Walid Raad).