Trailblazers: Highlighting Jordanian sculpture star Mona Saudi’s work 

DUBAI: The third in our series highlighting pioneering female artists from the Arab world in honor of Women’s History Month. 

Last year, the Arab world lost one of its most prolific modern sculptors, Jordanian artist Mona Saudi. She died aged 76 in Beirut, where she launched her career back in the Sixties and Seventies. Saudi, who was born in 1945, had a fiercely independent streak throughout her life. When she was just 16, she reportedly left Jordan to Beirut by taxi to explore her creativity.