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4 unusual facts about Ibrahim Ghannam


Art of the Arab–Israeli conflict

In addition to paintings of displaced refugees, themes of paradise lost were brought to the fore by artist Ibrahim Ghannam (1930–1984), who painted scenes of pre-1948 Palestinian village life.

Ibrahim Ghannam

His paintings focused on describing the daily life of the Palestinian people in his country before the Nakba.

Ghannam contracted Gout as a child and used a wheelchair throughout his life.

During the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Israeli army seized some of his paintings from one of the exhibits of Beirut.



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