Omran Al-Kaysi (Born 1943) is anhttp://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/Lebanonarts/painters/OAlKaysi/OmranAlKaysi.htm O.Kaysi (English) – Painter – Lebanon – Arab World artist, historian and art critic. He currently writes for the daily Lebanese newspaper, Kifaharabi and is a correspondent to a newspaper in Saudi Arabia.

Early life

Born to an Iraqi father and Lebanese mother,http://farhatartmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/10/omran-al-kaysi.html Omran Al-Kaysi Profile Kaysi studied law and art in

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and

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, Bulgaria.

Exhibitions

He has held both individual and group exhibitions across Lebanon, in Beirut, Saida and Kaslik, as well as abroad in Baghdad,

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, Amman, Madrid, London,

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, Jeddah and

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. In 2002, Kaysi was one of the main organizers for the

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symposium in Southern Lebanon.

Achievements

Kaysi has managed to display his paintings at Jeddah International Airport, another wall painting in Beiteddine Palace in Mount Lebanon, whilst another in Lebanon's

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. Another two paintings of his are on display in

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's presidential palace, in addition to the other being in the Boston Museum of Modern Art.

Publications

Kaysi is the author of several publications on modern

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art with themes of both love and war, these include: * ''Abd-Elhalim Radwi and the Modern Saudi art'' * ''A book about

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'' * ''"Close to home"'' * ''"Sophism in Islamic art"''

Published poems

* ''"Silence Does not Disturb the Dead"'', published in the early 60s. * ''"Talking to trees that resemble men I used to know"'' * ''"Verses not fit for publication"'' (a poem which criticizes the former ruling dictatorship of the Baath party in Iraq)

References

External links

Omran Al-Kaysi at CartageKifaharabi in Arabic
1943 births Living people Lebanese people of Iraqi descent Iraqi artists Lebanese artists 20th-century Iraqi historians 20th-century Lebanese historians 21st-century Iraqi poets 20th-century Lebanese poets Iraqi people of Lebanese descent Lebanese male poets 20th-century male writers 20th-century Iraqi poets {{Lebanon-historian-stub