Jamil Molaeb
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Molaeb was born in 1948[1]: 169 in Baissour in Aley District,[2] in the Chouf historic region of Lebanon, where he still lives.[3] He studied in the faculty of fine arts of the Lebanese University in Beirut, where he worked under Paul Guiragossian and Chafic Abboud.[3] He spent a year in Algeria in the 1970s.[3]
In 1984 he signed up for an MFA at the Pratt Institute in New York City, in the United States, after which he completed a doctorate in art education at Ohio State University. He returned to Lebanon in 1989 and began teaching at the Lebanese American University and at the national Lebanese University in Beirut.[3] Between 1991 and 1992 he was secretary of the Lebanese Artists Association for Painters & Sculptors.[2]
