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Sliman Mansour

سليمان منصور

born 1947

Born in Birzeit in 1947, he studied at the Bezalel academy in Jerusalem and has exhibited since 1975. His paintings of the Palestinian struggle, of peasant life and of people in traditional dress include Camels of Hardship (1973), his best known. He led the League of Palestinian Artists, was a member of the New Vision group of the first Intifada, co-founded the al-Wasiti Art Center in Jerusalem, won the Nile Award at the Cairo Biennial in 1998, and with Nabil Anani designed the Museum of Palestinian Folklore at In‘ash al-Usra.

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Palestinian Personalities: a biographic directory

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