Samir Salameh
Samir Salameh (; 16 August 1944 – 16 August 2018) was a Palestinian-French visual artist. Life and career Salameh was born in the city of SafedPalestine, on 16 August 1944 and on the impact of the 1948 exodus was forced to move with his family to the city of Majd al-Krum in Galilee, and from there to the Bint Jbeil village in Lebanon. Samir stayed with there for a short time, and continued his career in Beirut and Damascus, and finally settled in the monastery of the Christian community on the shield. Salameh began painting early, and received encouragement from the art teacher, a Syrian artist named Adham Ismail. He entered the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Damascus University and finished his studies in 1972 and then moved to Beirut, where he joined Palestine Liberation Organization. He participated in several collective exhibitions in Beirut, as well as numerous international exhibitions on Palestine. He contributed to the structuring of the Union of Arab Artists, being Ismail Shammout the first General Secretary. In 1975, Samir moved to Paris, France to continue his studies at École des Beaux-Arts, in front of the Louvre Museum, and when he received his residency he discovered