Ali Shama

Who is Ali Shama?

Musa Ali Shama is a New York City based educator and a painter of "hip hop cubist" art.

Shama was born in the Bronx, of Palestinian and Brazilian descent. He has a Masters of Fine Arts degree from CUNY-Lehman College and studied art education at C.W. Post College / Long Island University. He earned his second Masters Degree from Queens College, City University of New York in Educational Administration & Supervision. He taught art at his alma mater, Lehman High School in the Bronx for seven years. He worked as an Assistant Principal at John F. Kennedy H.S. in the Bronx, and in 2008 became Principal of Francis Lewis High School in Queens, NY.