Abdelrahman Al Muzayen was born in 1943 in Qubayba, a village in the Ramle subdistrict of Palestine. After the 1948 Nakba, his family was forced to relocate to Khan Younis Refugee camp in Gaza, where, in 1961, he completed his secondary schooling at Khan Younis School for Boys. Al Muzayen pursued his arts education in Egypt, earning a BA in 1966 from the College of Fine Arts at Helwan University, Alexandria, and an MA in 1975 from the same institution. He co-founded the General Union of Palestinian Plastic Artists in 1970 and the General Union of Arab Plastic Artists in the following year. In 1980, he established Al-Ard Artists’ Group and later formed the Studio of Revolutionary Artists of Damascus with Mostafa Al Hallaj. A visual artist, writer, and researcher, Al Muzayen completed his Ph.D. in Archaeology and History from Khartoum University, Sudan, in 1993. He wrote books on Palestinian cultural heritage and taught at Al-Aqsa University. Al Muzayen served as a colonel in the Palestinian Civil Police Force from 1996 until 2005.