Tamam Al-Akhal

Palestinian artist born in Palestine.  

Palestinian Heritage, 1984

Al-Akhal was born in 1935 in Jaffa in 1948 she left Jaffa with her family and lived in a refugee camp in Lebanon. In 1953 she enrolled at the Fine Arts College in Cairo. She is one of the first Palestinian women to be formally trained in the arts. She has exhibited widely with her husband Ismail Shammout in Cairo and various countries. She currently resides with her husband in Amman, Jordan.

See also
http://www.sakakini.org/arts/tamam.html
http://www.shammout.com/tam-oil/oil-tam.htm

 

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