Jamil Molaeb Mountain

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156 pp. of English and Arabic text; Two Introductions by Adonis and Cesar Nammour, Hardback binding in dust wrapper, title in gilt on spine; colour paintings, index; copy as new in mint condition. Jamil Molaeb was born 1948 in Baysour, casa of Aley in Lebanon. He got his DES at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Lebanese University in Beirut, joined the Fine Art Institute in Algeria, got his MFA at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn New York, and PHD at Ohio State University, both in USA. He taught art in many institutes and universities since 1976 and held more than twenty-three individual exhibitions and participated in more than fifty local and international exhibitions and sculpture symposia. He is a dedicated art teacher and has more than a dozen written or illustrated works. Molaeb travelled widely and painted extensively in all the countries that he visited. However, his main subject has always been his village; the various aspects of its daily life, its social environment and entrenched traditions. His aim is to reach Universality through the specificity of his own village.