Founded in 2014, Dar Jacir for Art and Research houses multiple projects grounded in shared encounters and hospitality. It is an interdisciplinary experimental learning hub that fosters cross-cultural and intergenerational exchanges. A process and practice-oriented platform, it is devoted to educational, cultural and agricultural exchanges and productions for the community in Bethlehem and elsewhere. Collective knowledge is shared through a participatory approach, whereby experimental works are produced and structures for care and repair are fostered.

Dar Jacir for Art and Research is the only artist-led space in the southern West Bank that provides arts education and residency programs for both Palestinians and internationals, operating across visual arts, sound, cinema, performance, dance, literature and agriculture. Alongside its diverse community of artists, farmers, researchers and cultural workers, the project brings together a broad public that is deeply involved in community activity and collaboration. Intimacy is at the heart of the project.

Artist-led and women-led, the learning hub facilitates and provides agency to artists and participants to lead, ask questions and meet with international and local artists, thinkers and cultural leaders.