Katanani is a Palestinian artist born in 1983. He studied at the Fine Arts Institute of the Lebanese University, and was a resident in Paris at Centre d’Art de Nanterre in Paris in 2016, and at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2012, 2013 and 2016. Katanani has had solo and group exhibitions in Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Paris, London, Kuala Lumpur, Doha, Brussels, Rome, Geneva, Manama, Marseilles , Munich and Washington D.C. In 2013, French writer and filmmaker Christophe Donner produced a feature film, entitled Le Lanceur de Pierres, based on Katanani’s experience. In 2016, Katanani was nominated for the Commitment prize at YIA Art Fair in Paris.