Thomas Dallal

Thomas Dallal is a widely published and award-winning Palestinian-America photojournalist, who grew up between upstate New York and Kuwait. After studying at McGill and moving to New York City, he photographed around the world for leading newspapers and magazines from a NYC base for 15 years. Among others, Tom covered the first Palestinian Intifada, Syria, the summer 1993 Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, early ‘non-implementation’ days of the Oslo Process, especially in the Gaza Strip, the GAM insurrection in Aceh and, as well as the Americas from his 20-year New York City base. Tom obtained his New York license to practice law in 2008, worked on war crimes cases for the President and presiding appeals judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague before moving to Palestine in 2009 to work as legal advisor for the PLO during the US Senator George Mitchell led so-called proximity talks between the PLO and Israel. He continued to work in the international law, policy and humanitarian-development realms in and around Jerusalem for a decade, eventually coming full circle back to the visual, and audio, arts. Tom currently works as a documentary cinematographer and photographer, as well as legal and policy consultant in the Haifa and Jerusalem environs.