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- Country of residence: Palestine
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Samir Salameh was born in Safad, Occupied Palestine in 1944. Following the Nakba in 1948, he fled to Syria with his family, where he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus, and graduated in 1972. Afterward, Salameh temporarily moved to Lebanon and worked with the PLO, creating posters and prints for its offices. In 1975 enrolled at the Ecole Superieure Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris and graduated in 1981. He settled in France, and he received a job in the Department of Arabic Literature at UNESCO Headquarters.
In 1996 he returned to Safad, trying with no success to find his old family home. He was awarded the Order of Culture, Arts, and Sciences by the Palestinian president in Ramallah, In 2005.
Salameh depicts abstract expressionist paintings using bright, luminous colors. Themes of landscapes also can be seen in his work, addressing the struggle of occupation and displacement, and his use of glowing colors symbolize a sign of hope for the Palestinian cause. Salameh passed away in France in 2018.
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