Shafik Radwan was born in the village of Najd, northern Gaza, in 1941, which was destroyed in 1948 by Israel. He is an artist and a graphic designer. He received his BA degree in Graphic Design from Helwan University in Cairo in 1959 and completed his Ph.D. in Art Critique at Surikov Art Institute in Moscow in 1989. He participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally, and some of his works are part of the permanent collections of both the Baghdad Museum of Modern Art and Moscow State Museum of Oriental Art. Radwan taught Arts in Libya, Sudan, and Palestine. He was the Director of the Fine Arts Department in the Palestinian Ministry of Culture, the Head of the Fine Arts Department at Derna University in Libya, and the Dean of the Fine Arts Faculty at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza.