Dr. Ali Sarmini ( ar, علي سرميني '), is a Syrian painter, best known for his work Quneitra on Remains painted on parts of an

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shot down over Syrian territories, in about 1972.

Biography

Born in 1943, in Aleppo, Syria, he studied Fine Arts in

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, graduating in 1972, and where, two years later, he began lecturing in Fine Arts. Sarmini later achieved a doctorate in Fine Arts from the

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-Weißensee Academy of ArtsInterkulturelles Projekt Berlin - Damaskus; 07.11.2003, Academy of Art, Berlin-Weißensee
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. From 1981 to 1991 he was Vice-Dean, from 1993 to 2001, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, at the

. He attained a professorship degree in 1993. Sarmini has exhibited internationally, including in Germany and Russia.A Syrian Artist Displays Paintings on Occupied Golan In Moscow
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"Quneitra on Remains"

Sarmini's three art work pieces (from different parts of an F-4 Phantom) were created in 1974, and were presented the same year to Syrian president

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. It is believed that the Syrian president subsequently gifted one part to the

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s ambassador to Syria, Nuratdin Muhitdinov, and another to US diplomat

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. The fate of the third piece was unknown until recently, when it was reported that it had been rediscovered in Moscow, and put up for auction. It was presented on 18 July 2007 to the Moscow House of Nationalities, by author and Syrian ambassador to Russia, Hasan Rische.http://www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=162072&cid=46 (in Russian)
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarmini, Ali People from Aleppo Living people 20th-century Syrian painters Academic staff of Damascus University 1943 births