Areen is a Palestinian textile artist and currently lives in Dubai. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Textile Design and Art in 2018. In 2019, she interned as a textile designer at Mirjam Rouden Studio in London, UK, and then she interned as a textile designer at H&M in Stockholm, Sweden.

Her artistic practice has always aligned closely with textiles, in form and in its principles. She found textiles to be a flexible medium that allowed her to bring together different threads into one piece, something that is a reflection of her cultural identity. The meeting of materials, colors, shapes, orientation, and patterns in composition enables the viewer to observe the work as an embodied universe of symbolic meaning, often showing concern with the path we take through life.

Drawing on embroidery as a tradition from the Levant region, Areen constantly attempts to modernize and enhance the methods by playing with technologies and multimedia to experiment with the idea of transparency and reversing the function of a material.

Areen has participated in several collective exhibitions across Palestine, New York, Paris, Munich, Hamburg, Ankara, Istanbul, Beirut, Doha, Dubai, Manama, Algeria, and Łódź, Poland. She was awarded the ‘Justus Brinckmann Award’ at MK&G Museum, Hamburg, Germany, in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Doha Design Prize in 2024. In 2025, she was selected to showcase her work at Maison&Objet under the ‘Cultural Grants Programme,’ an initiative of Dubai Culture.

Areen had her first solo show ‘By Areen ﺑـﻴﺪ ﻋـﺮﻳـﻦ’ supported by the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiques at The Art Centre, Manama, Bahrain, 2022, and her solo show ‘The Mother Thread’, supported by Khawla Art and Culture, Dubai Design District, Dubai, UAE, 2022. Areen was also commissioned to produce a public art installation for Dubai Design Week 2023.