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Bashir Hussein Sinwar was born in the depopulated town of Al-Majdal in the occupied Gaza Strip on January 27, 1942. He is married and has two sons and seven daughters. He studied primary school in UNRWA schools and secondary school in schools in the Gaza Strip, obtaining his high school diploma in 1961. He earned a bachelor's degree in oil painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Cairo University in 1965. He worked as an art teacher at Haifa Secondary School for Girls in Khan Yunis, Al-Arish Secondary School for Girls, and Khan Yunis Secondary School for Boys between 1965 and 1977. He was a senior illustrator in the Educational Media Department in the UAE between 1977 and 1994, and at the Curriculum Development Center in the Ministry of Education in the UAE between 1994 and 2002. He also worked at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society's studio in the Gaza Strip and lectured on drawing and painting at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza between 2001 and 2006.
He participated in numerous exhibitions in most of the world's capitals, including the Palestine Exhibition in Cairo in 1962, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture and Guidance Exhibition in the Soviet Union and China in 1963, and a joint exhibition with the Palestinian artist Kamel Al-Ma'ani at the Nablus Municipal Library in 1974. He also participated in exhibitions organized by the General Union of Palestinian Plastic Artists in several cities in Palestine and around the world between 1975 and 1990. He held several solo exhibitions, including two in Khan Yunis in 1966 and 1967, two in Gaza in 1972 and 1973, an exhibition in support of the First Palestinian Intifada held in Sharjah, UAE, between 1988 and 1989, and the "Qurban" exhibition in Gaza City in 2010. He represented Palestine at the Sharjah International Biennial and Expo Sharjah in 1990. Several of his works are held in private and public collections in various countries, including the Nablus Municipal Library (the painting was confiscated in 1990). 1984, by the Israeli authorities), the Jordanian Collections Committee, the Libyan Embassy in London, the Director of the Arab League Office in Washington, the Egyptian Minister of Culture and Guidance, the Sharjah Cultural Department, and the Ruler of Sharjah. He has holdings in the Sharjah Museum of Fine Arts and the Sharjah Museum of Contemporary Arab Art. He has received a number of awards and certificates locally and internationally.
Sinwar was a founding member of the Emirates Fine Arts Society, as well as a member of the General Union of Palestinian Artists, a member of the General Union of Arab Artists, a member of the Palestinian Fine Artists Association, and he headed the branch of the General Union of Palestinian Artists in the UAE.
Sinwar dedicated his artistic works to serving the Palestinian cause and raising awareness of the suffering of the Palestinian people.
Sinwar endured hardship throughout his life, experiencing the Nakba and displacement. His graduation project, along with seventy oil paintings and hundreds of sketches, was confiscated by the Israeli occupation forces when they occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967. These works were placed in the Haifa Secondary School for Girls in Khan Younis between 1967 and 1975, a period during which the Israeli army maintained a military presence at the school. He passed away in Gaza City on April 9, 2017.
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