A Jordanian artist, known since the 1960's for his distinctive plastic art experience. Born in Zarqa'a in 1945, Hourani began practicing art at a very early age. His artistic career was disrupted in 1967, when he decided to pursue a more political and cultural line. In 1993, Hourani emphasized his specialty by resuming his works and holding an exhibition for his water paintings, where he focused on capturing natural landscape views of Al-Waleh Valley, south of Amman. Hourani's outstanding contribution is mostly recognizable in photography. Since 1996, he has held thirteen solo exhibitions in a number of capitals around the world, such as Amman, Aleppo, Cairo, Ad Dawhah, Gothenburg; Sweden and Washington DC; USA.
His photography works enjoy special distinctiveness; they tend to grasp the surface of the object as well as the texture, thus, giving a sense of abstraction to his. Hourani also provides explanatory manuscript to a wide collection of his photos, each of which forms the components of a full-size moral that is most similar to abstract morals.
In his last exhibition, "Navigating the Desert", Hourani manages to prove that there is much more depth to a superficial desert scene; in fact, there is great wealth in the beauty details of the wilderness of the desert landscape. He extends his own vision of the desert magnificence through a unique collection of photos displayed at that exhibition. The uniqueness lies in the photos' capture of miniature compositions, texture, motion and instant changes in colour that sand cliffs witness during a sudden violent thunderstorm that erupts in the area.
