Jamil Molaeb
Artist
Biography
Jamil Molaeb is a Lebanese artist, born in 1948 in Baissour in the Aley District, in the Chouf region of Lebanon, where he still lives. He studied at the faculty of fine arts of the Lebanese University in Beirut, where his teachers included Paul Guiragossian and Chafic Abboud, and spent a year in Algeria in the 1970s. In 1984 he enrolled in an MFA at the Pratt Institute in New York, and later completed a doctorate in art education at Ohio State University. He returned to Lebanon in 1989 and began teaching at the Lebanese American University and the Lebanese University. Molaeb has made drawings, mosaics, sculptures and woodcuts as well as paintings; his style is flexible, and some of his work shows the influence of ancient Egyptian, Babylonian and Sumerian art.