Kamal Boullata (1942 Jerusalem – 2019 Berlin) was a painter and writer. Following Israel’s 1967 Six-Day War and the annexation of Jerusalem, he was denied the right to return from Lebanon to his city of birth on the grounds that he was outside the country before the city’s fall. He lived in the USA (1968–92), Morocco (1993–96), France (1997–2012), and, from 2013 on, in Germany.
 
Boullata was a graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.

His work is found in private and public collections including the British Museum, London; the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman; the Patronato de la Alhambra Islamic Museum, Granada; the Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah; the Museum of the Institut du monde arabe, Paris; the Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman; the New York Public Library, New York; the Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; The Arab Bank, Amman; the Bibliothèque Louis Notari, Monaco; the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Arab Art Foundation, Beirut; the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal; and the Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah.
 
The recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship in 1993 and 1994 and a Ford Foundation grant in 2001, Boullata was elected as a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg / Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in 2012.

He is the author of four books on Palestinian art and the editor of several books on modern poetry and contemporary culture.