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Born in Damascus, Syria and lived her life in the United Arab Emirates , She Graduated with a bachelor degree from the College of Fine Arts(in Painting) from Sharjah University,
UAE, Sharjah
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and is now working as the Art Centre Supervisor at Dubai Ladies Club.
a Feminist
Her work is about the Beauty standards which are becoming excessively unattainable, the media’s objectification of women ‘as delicious appetizers’ increasingly disturbs her. ‘Being a female and living in a society that is saturated with images of the perfect woman, “I am seriously concerned and continuously dissatisfied because I am coerced to compare myself to perfected objects of beauty. I no longer have enough confidence to look in the mirror and be satisfied, because I always compare myself to the beauties in the magazines”. But her practice is concerned with much more than beauty. She scrutinizes gender dynamics examining the power struggle between the sexes and recognizes that subservience of the female gender is a prevalent dynamic in the Arab World. A conversation she once overheard marked her deeply: ‘When I tell you, yogurt is green, he said, you will reply yes darling, the yogurt is green’.
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