Saloua raouda choucair biography of mahatma
Bench by Saloua Raouda Choucair Saloua Raouda Choucair () was a Lebanese artist that created the Bench which is located at the waterfront in MIA Park.
Saloua Raouda Choucair () was born into a prosperous Druze family in.!
Saloua Raouda Choucair
Saloua Raouda Choucair (Arabic: سلوى روضة شقير; June 24, 1916 – January 26, 2017) was a Lebanesepainter and sculptor.[1][2]
Life and career
Born in 1916 in Ain El Mraisseh, along Beirut's coastal Corniche, Lebanon,[3] Choucair came from a family of doctors, lawyers, engineers and historians.[4] Her father, Salim Rawda (1872-1917) was an expatriate in Australia trading herbs and writing manuscripts on their medicinal values.[3] When he returned to Lebanon in 1910, he met and married Choucair's mother, Zalfa Amin Najjar (1891-1995), a Brummana High School student who was fond of reciting poetry.[3] They had three children: Anis Rawda (1911-1988) was a businessman and a member of the Beirut municipality; Anissa Rawda Najjar (1913-2016) was a social activist, who was married to the late Fouad Najjar; and the youngest, Choucair, became one of the most prominent figures of Lebanese modernism.[