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Lebanese painter Ihab Ahmed’s ‘spontaneous’ Pop art offers a joyful escape


Fri, 2023-01-20 11:43

DUBAI: The Lebanese Pop artist Ihab Ahmad was born in 1983, in the midst of Lebanon’s brutal civil war. To escape the violence, Ahmad and his family moved to Cyprus in 1988. He may have been only five years old at the time, but the environment of the Mediterranean island made a lasting impression on him and now heavily influences his art.  

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