Hiba Shalabi was born in 1976 in the United States. Of Libyan origin, she has lived most of her life in Libya. In 1998, she graduated in Social Science from the University of Tripoli, where she currently lives and works. Hiba Shalabi is a self-taught photographer who occasionally uses digital art programmes to edit her photos.
Over the years, she has presented her artworks in several local exhibitions and art fairs: among others, in 2012-2013 at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Tripoli and in 2017 at Tripoli Art House.
She has also always been a keen advocate of women’s rights, as her participation in exhibitions in Morocco and Tunis attest. Recently, Shalabi has also begun a campaign to preserve the cultural heritage of “Old Tripoli”, the old part of the city, also aided by the Italian embassy in Libya.