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Chain, 2025
Ink on paper
29,7 x 42 cm
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February 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Boy with bird

Ink on paper
29,7 x 42cm
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February 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Ink on paper
29x42cm

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December 16, 2024 at 12:54 AM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Metamorphosis
Ink on paper
29,7 x 42cm
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January 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Ink on paper,
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January 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Boy with Bird
Ink on paper, 29,7 x 42cm
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December 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Ink and acrylic on paper
29,7 x 42 cm
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January 20, 2025 at 12:52 PM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
“Their eyes were watching us III”
Ink on paper,
29,7 x 42 cm
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January 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Ink on paper
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December 20, 2024 at 2:08 PM
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Cat commissions
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December 29, 2024 at 4:22 PM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
“Their eyes were watching us II”
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January 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Ink and acrylic on paper,
29,7 x 42 cm
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December 16, 2024 at 9:57 PM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
«The Head Mourning the Body»
–Martyrs I.
Ink and acrylic on paper
29,7 x 42cm

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January 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Ink and acrylic on paper
29,7 x 42cm

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December 15, 2024 at 12:17 AM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
Ink on paper
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December 17, 2024 at 8:06 PM
bilalchahal.bsky.social
Mixed media on canvas 160 x 120 cm #abstractart #contemporary #lebaneseartist
November 30, 2024 at 7:36 AM
melissachalhoub.bsky.social
“Their eyes were watching us”
Ink on paper,
29,7 x 42 cm
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Ink drawing on paper, background made out of a pattern of open eyes, a silhouette side made out of the pattern in the top left is looking at a couple embracing forming the center of the drawing
January 21, 2025 at 2:29 PM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Burnout Culture” by Amani Haydar (Lebanese Australian) - Acrylic on canvas / 2019 - Museum of Art and Culture, yapang (New South Wales, Australia) #WomenInArt #AmaniHaydar #أماني_حيدر #Haydar #MACyapang #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #art #artText #acrylic #LebaneseArtist #WomenPaintingWomen
With the title “Burnout Culture,” this portrait reframes burnout as a social condition rather than an individual failing. The composition reads like two climates at once: depletion and heaviness on the left, urgency and heat on the right, as if the world beside her is constantly on fire. A front-facing woman fills the center of the canvas, her gaze direct yet weary. From each eye, vivid blue tears stream down in heavy saturated drips. She wears a layered hijab in cream and honey tones, outlined in dark lines that sharpen each fold around her cheeks and neck. Her skin is modeled in warm browns and tans with cool shadows under the eyes and along the jaw as thick brows frame her dark, reflective eyes. A patterned dress of deep cobalt dotted with red and scattered with yellow leaves adds a bright, restless rhythm across her torso. Behind her, the space splits: on the left, a flat brown field and dark smoke while on the right, a pale sky erupts into curling ribbons of red, pink, orange, and yellow flame. The still figure and the burning background collide, making the body feel held upright under pressure. Those electric tears refuse restraint. They insist that exhaustion and grief are visible, bodily realities. Lebanese Australian artist and advocate Amani Haydar (أماني حيدر) has spoken about returning to art when words felt unsafe, and her memoir The “Mother Wound” (2021) traces trauma, domestic violence, and systemic inequality. In that context, the woman’s steady stare becomes a form of witness as she does not perform “resilience” for comfort. Instead, she asks us to notice what burnout is made of like unpaid care, gendered expectations, cultural pressures to stay composed, and institutions that reward overextension. The flames might be external demands and the tears their private cost. Together, they point toward a harder question: what would it take to build a culture where rest and safety are not earned, but expected?
January 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
bilalchahal.bsky.social
#abacus project - mixed media on textile 23x15 cm
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December 11, 2024 at 8:08 AM
mdstamper.bsky.social
“Self Portrait” by سلوى روضة شقير / Saloua Raouda Choucair (Lebanese) - Oil on board / 1943 - Tate Modern (London, UK) #WomenInArt #art #artText #arte #SalouaRaoudaChoucair #سلوىروضةشقير #Choucair #TateModern #LebaneseArtist #LebaneseArt #SelfPortrait #ModernArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists
Painted in 1943, this self-portrait comes from Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair’s early, searching years before her long Paris stay. With a background in natural sciences, she valued systems that could be tested and rebuilt. Color becomes structure and light behaves like geometry. That same year she spent 7 months in Cairo, Egypt during wartime closures. With museums shut, she studied old mosques and buildings, absorbing the logic of Islamic design of how line, proportion, and repetition can carry meaning without relying on illusionistic depth. She depicts her own headshot with a composed and unsentimental expression. A pale headscarf wraps closely around her hair, forming an oval frame. Her skin is built from light, warm-beige tones interrupted by cool blue shadow and soft rose, so the face reads as overlapping planes rather than rounded flesh. Dark arched brows and half-lidded eyes meet ours with steady, slightly weary calm. Her muted brick-red mouth remains closed. She wears a brown coat over a green garment with a squared neckline, while the background dissolves into blocks of light brown, grey, and blue, keeping our attention on the geometry of her features. Identity is carried less by setting than by method as the self is assembled plane by plane and fused into one steady gaze. Around this period, while taking philosophy classes at the American University of Beirut, she was told Greek art was “superior” because Islamic art lacked human images. This remark sharpened her commitment to the visual language she found essential. Seen in retrospect, the fractured planes of her face bridge portraiture and the modular abstractions and interlocking sculptures she would later develop, often compared to verses of Arabic poetry. The painting asks us to meet her not as an emblem, but as a thinker at work who is modern, rigorous, and quietly refusing any hierarchy that would place her culture, or her gender, at the margins.
December 15, 2025 at 1:12 AM
thebardandrawi.bsky.social
🎨 Ramzi Mallat – #LebaneseArtist whose installation Atlas of An Entangled Gaze reshuffled the power dynamics of the Arab Hall. He also shares practical advice for artists navigating the art world.

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The Bard & The Rawi | In-depth stories from Arab & British creatives shaping the UK and MENA-SWANA cross-cultural dialogue. | Atlas of An Entangled Gaze: A Conversation with Ramzi Mallat
Atlas of An Entangled Gaze: A Conversation with Ramzi Mallat , a Lebanese artist blending contemporary practices with cultural heritage. His experiences, from childhood creativity to creating memor…
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October 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
thebardandrawi.bsky.social
What's the best advice you've received about sustaining an artistic practice?

Lebanese artist Ramzi Mallat shares practical wisdom on rejection, practice, and why Arab institutions need Arab staff in positions of power.

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The Bard & The Rawi | In-depth stories from Arab & British creatives shaping the UK and MENA-SWANA cross-cultural dialogue. | Ramzi Mallat: On Crafting Authenticity, & Presenting One’s Truth
Ramzi Mallat emphasises the need for a consolidated archive of Arab art and discusses the distinction between an artist’s personal practice and civic responsibility. He advises young artists …
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September 25, 2026 at 10:24 AM
chieya-tokyo.bsky.social
A quiet table, charged with tension.
Mona Hatoum, Home, 1999.
Unable to return home after the Lebanese Civil War, she built a life in exile—and redefined “home” through art.

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April 4, 2026 at 1:44 PM
thebardandrawi.bsky.social
🎨 #RamziMallat 's #ArabHall installation "reshuffled power dynamics" through 7,500 ceramic discs. His work blends memory, identity & resistance – from guerrilla coffee projects to a Beirut memorial.

"I produced this work so the space could speak."
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The Bard & The Rawi | In-depth stories from Arab & British creatives shaping the UK and MENA-SWANA cross-cultural dialogue. | Atlas of An Entangled Gaze: A Conversation with Ramzi Mallat
Atlas of An Entangled Gaze: A Conversation with Ramzi Mallat , a Lebanese artist blending contemporary practices with cultural heritage. His experiences, from childhood creativity to creating memor…
thebardandtherawi.com
September 11, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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🇱🇧 Lebanese artist #BernardYagee found refuge in music at six, wrote his first song at eight, and never looked back.

Now he pours that same heart into pop that tells the truth and doesn’t flinch.

🎧 Let this one breathe → www.showcasedaily.com?sid=1236

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September 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM