Category: Mediums
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Born in 1937 in Karbala Governorate, Iraq, Bahija Al-Hakim was a prominent Iraqi artist, celebrated for her contributions to the world of visual arts. Her life was woven with familial bonds and a love for art that left an indelible mark on her journey.In the embrace of a large and loving family, Bahija grew up…
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Leila Bakouche, born in Algiers in 1992, is a multidisciplinary artist with a deep passion for cities, architecture, and the intricate details that define spaces and identities. Growing up near the Mediterranean, she was influenced by the Ottoman and Haussmannian architectural styles. Her love for cities was cultivated throughout her life, leading her to specialize…
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Azza Ezzat (B. 1980) is a Cairo based visual artist, with a background in architecture. She is interested in urban observations and detecting human traces in the built environment. Between the planning of the formal city and the reactions of informal communities, Ezzat searches for hidden cities that are built by impressions, memories and ever…
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(1932 – 2018) Jumana El Husseini was born in Jerusalem on April 2, 1932, to Jamal El Husseini and Nimati al-Alami, members of two prominent Jerusalem families. On her father’s side, her links to Jerusalem extended back to at least the 13th century. She had six brothers and five sisters, including Serene Husseini Shahid, and…
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(1941 – 2004) Nuha Al-Radi was an Iraqi diarist, ceramicist and painter and noted author of the Baghdad Diaries which vividly recounts the horror of living through the first Gulf War. She was born into a distinguished Iraqi family which included Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Prime Minister of the Ottoman Empire. In 1919, her father Mohammed…
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(1919 – 2002) Zeinab Abd al-Hamid was an Egyptian artist known for her color saturated paintings of Egyptian cities.Abd al-Hamid used an array of media, from watercolors to oils. While art historians struggled to place her works in a single art movement, the general consensus is that her paintings are part of the Egyptian modernist…
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(1950 – 2019) Zaha Hadid’s pioneering vision redefined architecture for the 21st century and captured imaginations across the globe. Each of her projects transformed notions of what can be achieved in concrete, steel, and glass; combining her unwavering optimism for the future and belief in the power of invention with advanced design, material and construction…
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( 1919 – 2003) Tahia Halim was born in Cairo while her primary education took place inside the Royal Palace where she was raised, as her father was the chief laureate of King Fouad. In high school she took two years off to learn French, piano and painting under the stewardship of Youssef Taraboulsi, under…
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(1906 – 1997) Sophie Halaby (b. June 26, 1906, in Jerusalem or Kiev) was a professional Palestinian watercolor artist whose life spanned most of the 20th century. Her primary subject matter was the landscape of Jerusalem, unscarred by foreign occupation and urban development. As the first Arab woman to travel to Paris in the 1920s…
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1916 – 2017 Born in 1916 in Ain el Mreisseh, Beirut, Lebanon, Choucair came from a family of doctors, lawyers, engineers and historians. Her father, Salim Rawda (1872-1917) was an expatriate in Australia trading herbs and writing manuscripts on their medicinal values. When he returned to Lebanon in 1910, he met and married Choucair’s mother,…
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(1924 – 2004) A pioneer of visual arts in Tunisia, as well as an academic and a women’s rights activist. She is remembered for establishing modern tapestry in her country, as well as for her contributions in the fields of design, painting, ceramics, upholstery, and decorative arts, employing various materials such as stamps, ceramics, stained…
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(1912–1994) A self-taught Moroccan artist who began painting in her later years, and whose work has been exhibited and sold at galleries in Africa and Europe. Radia Bent Lhoucine (also spelled Radia Bent El Houssein) was born in the region of Marrakech in Douar Oulad Youssef (in the province of Kalaât Sraghna) and died in…
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Naziha Salim(1927 – 2008) An Iraqi artist, educator and author, described by the country’s president, Jalal Talabani, as “the first Iraqi woman who anchored the pillars of Iraqi contemporary art”. Not a great deal of scholarly attention has been given to the cultural and artistic lives of female artists. In the case of Naziha Salim,…
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(1925 – 2004) Born in 1925 as the middle child in a family of seven sisters and two brothers, Menhat Allah Helmy stood out among her siblings through her artistic talent. She graduated with distinction from Cairo’s High Institute of Pedagogic Studies for Art in 1949 and earned her a government scholarship three years later—just…
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(1889 – 1973) The late Marie Chiha Hadad was born in 1889 in Beirut, Lebanon to a prominent family of bankers. She completed her education in 1908 at the exclusive French school ‘l’Ecole Des Dames De Nazareth,’ where she studied the work of the French masters in both literature and arts. Marie Chiha was married…