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Salwa Arnous

Palestinian-American Artist

Biography:

Salwa was born in Jaffa Palestine, her family fled Palestine in 1948 to find a new home. In 1948 her family moved to Beirut and later settled in Cairo. Her house hold responsibilities as a child was to produce the art for the table clothes, bed sheets, pillow cases, skirts, dresses, and blouses for the family and her three sisters. Salwa grew up, married and moved to Kuwait. After seven years in Kuwait, Salwa, her husband and three children moved to America (Colombia, Missouri). Once in America Salwa went back to school to get her Bachelors degree in fine art. She has been expressing her feeling through her paintings to represent the Palestinian people. Her main topic is focused on the failing and mired peace talks between Palestinian and Israeli leadership and the people they represent. As a woman artist, Salwa is interesting in women issues. She is representing and showing women’s around the globe have had almost the same suffering and straggle every day in their life. Salwa love traveling and photography. She went to Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, and China main land.

 

                 

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