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Dear Friends,Lebanon has always been home for free ideas, progressive thinkers, pioneer movements and artisticexpression. A new narrative is taking shape in the region, regardless of the uncertainties surroundingus. As this dynamic progresses, how do we remain viable in sustaining our freedoms and tolerance

and in preserving an outlook of diversity, pluralism and inclusiveness?

Art is the highest measure of our universal humanity and of the spirit of civilizations, which endurein perpetuity. It stems from our innermost truths, our darkest fears and addresses our hopes anddreams. Art, in all its forms, remains the lasting footprint in the history of nations and people. Artists inLebanon have survived against the odds and the turmoil of these last few decades. Their innovation

and fearlessness have led the way through the dim tunnels of adversity and circumstance. With a newworld-class museum, we want to give them and their brave, intrepid journey a home. We want BeirutContemporary to be a temple of delight, wonderment and discovery for art lovers from around the

world. It will not just be a repository of works of art, but a vibrant platform for change, artistic fermentand evolution. It will not only exhibit modern and contemporary art but will also feature performance artand develop capabilities for restoration, research and education as well. Taking a leaf out of the bookof museums and art institutions around the world, striving to remain in synch with their communities

and urban communities and to become vehicles for change and enrichment, we will engage with ourenvironment in the most dynamic way. To survive and continue attracting the generations building ourfuture, museums have to adapt and stay in tune with the times. Ours will be no different. Its content

and message will not be static but fluid and interactive.

In the past year, the Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon has beenactively working with Lebanese and international consultants to draw up a comprehensive vision andblueprint for the museums mission, function, governance structure, capital and operational costs andbusiness plan. Our endeavor and efforts are geared towards making Beirut Contemporary a focal pointand epicenter of cultural and creative ferment, along a line of emerging and new museum. It stretchesfrom the National Museum, through Beirut Contemporary, to Lebanons Prehistoric Museum at theUniversit St. Joseph, the recently opened and impressive Mineral Museum, also associated with the

Jesuit University, the planned Beit Beirut, House of Beirut, and others. Beirut Contemporary will be awindow onto Lebanons cultural and artistic potential and offer an open view to those of the region.

Lebanese architects are busy coming up with various designs that will best fit and showcase themuseums purpose and style. A select jury will announce the competitions final result in due time.Though public and private sources of funding in other countries have shared the burden of subsidizing

and sustaining museums, the Lebanese government has been weighed down with other priorities.Over-taxed infrastructure, political discord and a massive influx of refugees have sucked up all public

resources of assistance to the arts. APEAL has taken it upon itself to shoulder what it sees as a sacredand decisive responsibility. We invite and urge you to join us in bringing this very important venture to

fruition. Beirut Contemporary will have a crucial role in preserving unity and rallying the nation and theregion around change, progress and a plurality of fresh ideas. You have a role in making this happen,in raising awareness and sensitivity towards inclusiveness and minority communities to the highestlevels. We do this by acknowledging our realities through artistic and cultural expression and byprojecting how we see ourselves, and how the rest of the world can perceive us.

Beirut Contemporary is a pioneering new museum of modern and contemporary artin Lebanon. Developed by APEAL in conjunction with a network of Lebanese andinternational partners, the museum will stand on a site donated by the Universit deSaint Joseph, at Beiruts thriving Mathaf intersection.

A generatio n on from the end of the Lebanese civil war, a rich and subst antialartistic community exists in Beirut, with Lebanese talent increasingly celebratedand collected across the international art world. Despite regional instability, thetenacity of Lebanese artists, curators, thinkers and activists has generated a vibrantlocal scene. Grown from grass-roots, it is defined by innovation and fearlessness.

However, major governmental support for artists does not yet exist in Lebanon. Nor

does an internationally-recognized contemporary museum. Beirut Contemporarywill fill this space, a twenty-first century museum that aims to contribute tomeaningful art discourse in Lebanon and beyond, and form strong and lastingrelationships with its local communities. Open to all, the museum will be activelyshaped by the communities it serves, and enter into dynamic dialogue with thevibrant and diverse publics that make up Beirut.

Art and culture are catalysts fo r economic reg eneration, on city-wide and reg ionallevels. Museums generate revenue and stimulate local economic activity, raisingthe value of real estate and creating varied and stable jobs in an increasinglyknowledge-based economy. More conceptually, art institutions contribute to asense of place and belonging, becoming sources of pride and national identity.Beirut Contemporary hopes to be a vehicle for sharing Lebanese values and ideals,connecting with the Lebanese diaspora and promoting peaceful dialogue throughthe power of the visual and performing arts.

Building a core collection that reflects the strength and diversity of Lebaneseart, Beirut Contemporarys exhibitions will bring Middle-Eastern artists of thetwentieth and twenty-first centuries into dialogue with international art contexts.Featuring state-of-the-art galleries, performance spaces, library and archive, BeirutContemporary is dedicated to nurturing the next generation of artistic and curatorialtalent, in Lebanon, the Middle-East, and beyond. As an independent institution,Beirut Contemporary aims to be a stable site for the creation of art discourse,public education and community engagement.

A MUSEUM IN THE MAKINGFOREWARD

Sincerely,

Henrietta Nammour

President of APEAL

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Baron Palumbo of Walbrook, an Eton and Oxford graduate, studied law, roseto prominence as a successful developer and became an avid art collector anddedicated patron, with a lifelong passion and appreciation for fine architecture. Hehas commissioned designs by the late Sir James Stirling and Mies van der Rohe,both celebrated and world known architects, for prestigious and historic sites andmemorials in the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1972 and 1986, hecommissioned sculptures and a sundial by Henry Moore and half a dozen works ofart by other leading artists and designers. He secured the purchase of propertiesowned buy Frank Lloyd Wright and van der Rohe in America and oversaw theirembellishment and opening to the public.

He is a trustee of the Visiting Committee of the Mies van der Rohe archive at the

Museum of Modern Art in New York and The Design Museum in London. He hasserved as a trustee of the Tate Gallery in London and six other institutions andfoundations. He is chairman and Chairman Emeritus of the Serpentine Gallery inLondon and was chairman of the Pritzker Prize for Architecture from 2010-2012. Hewas appointed as chairman of the Arts Council in Great Britain from 1994-2014 andas chairman of the Tate Gallery Foundation in 1985-1986 and he is currently thechairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust among others.

Lord Palumbo was a board member of the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York, TheRoyal Albert Hall in London and of The Royal Shakespeare Company, among othersincluding member of the advisory board to the Lebanese International FinanceExecutive. He has been awarded no less than eight titles and honors for his manyachievements in his working life and the arts. He was chancellor of the Universityof Plymouth from 1992-2007, governor of The London School of Economics from1976-1994 and of the Whitgift School in England from 2002-2010. He has writtenfor various publications on subjects related to the arts and architecture and lecturedand spoken publically at a host of venues, academies and universities.

The impact of a Modern and Contemporary Museum of Art of quality upon the inhabitants of thetown or city in which it is located, is best demonstrated by the City of Bilbao in Spain, with the

advent there of the Guggenheim Museum. Before that great event, the city had been riven byturmoil, violence, and dissent. Since its completion, however, these negative qualities have bee n

replaced by the three Rs, - reconciliation, rehabilitation, and regeneration.

And why not? The Arts, after all, have the capacity to transcend physical boundaries, as well asboundaries of language, race, colour, religion and class, by virtue of the fact that the talent ofartists represents at its best, the highest achievement of which the human spirit is capable.

No wonder that the Arts are also a yardstick by which the civilised nature of any society canbe, and is, measured, introducing in the process, pride and hope, both of which are preciouscomponents of contemporary life. In fact, of course, this same sense of pride and hope haveworked their magic since the be ginning of time.Because of an antiquity that stretches back many millennia, Lebanon finds itself in the forefrontof Middle Eastern culture. Add to that the legendary financial brilliance of its people, and theirequally legendary resilience, and the winning formula is complete!

If Antiquity gives Lebanon a head start in matters of cultural excellence, that long and noblepedigree has endowed the DNA of its people with the same aura, whether they are aware ofit, or not. And as a result, they have no need to clothe their culture in superficial glitter, or thecosmetic fashion of the moment: no need to market their work for instant consumption or to

stunt their stuff that some might categorise as arrogance, because they know that money cannever be a substitute for talent; and that no amount of money can buy heritage or tradition.

So the Lebanese approach will be of a very different order an article of faith in the modernworld: a witness to contemporary history; a repository of events, some shatt ering, other sublime.

And because artists are free agents of perception who have the capacity to see and to convey,they are able t o capture the moment in all its horror or glory as an expression of living memory.

The social, educational, and economic benefits that will follow such an enterprise are boundless;and they will add a new, and fresh dimension to the life of Lebanon, - exciting, exhilarating, asonly a celebration of the truth of positive energy can provide.

Crowds will flock to the Museum from within the country, and from all four corners of the globe,for Beirut has always been a powerful and joyful beacon, and a destination that has no needto look for an audience, or to offer inducements to sample its wares. What it will offer will be atransformative experience through the medium of artistic excellence that will speak without fearor favour. It will also play a leading role in strengthening the creation production, distribution andenjoyment of culture and services at the local and regional level.

In these troubled times of e conomic fear, uncertainty, and dislocation, it is essential to record,and not only to record, but to emphasise once again, that the Arts speak a universal languagethat is, in every way, an indispensable adjunct to any potential initiative, in furthering international

relationships and understanding; bringing harmony where there is discord; hope where there isdespair; light where there is darkness; and creativity where there is chaos.

Let this development for Beirut and Lebanon be the beginning of something bold, beautiful, andbrave: And let us all resolve to work together to ensure that this Modern and ContemporaryMuseum of the Arts becomes a reality.

Peter Palumbo

6 January 2015

GUEST SPEAKERLord (Peter) Palumbo

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An annual prize presented to an individual for outstanding achievement and distinguished

service rendered in one of the fields of promoting culture and raising the profile of Lebanese

art at home and abroad. The criteria for selection are based on the highest standards of

excellence and professionalism in sensitizing audiences to great discoveries, advances and

novelties from various facts of the cultural realm of Lebanon and beyond.

Raymond Audi is the essence and epitome of a renaissance man.

He is not only a giant in the banking business, but also an entrepreneur, a philanthropist, akeen patron of the arts and a true patriot with an eye for the aesthetic and a reverence forculture and its role in the preservation of civilizations.

A banker by profession and training, he was instrumental, alongside his father and brothers,in the development of a centenarian family enterprise, which culminated in Banque Audiin 1962. He engineered the early development of the bank, establishing the first merchantbank in Lebanon and then presiding over the local, regional and international expansionof the Banque Audi brand with eight subsidiaries abroad, in France, Jordan, Syria, Egypt,Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Monaco and Turkey.

The bank grew steadily and its impact beyond Lebanese borders buoyed its standingas one of the top 20 Arab banks. Banque Audi has alternatively also topped the list ofLebanese banks and maintained its leading and dynamic role in consolidating the Lebanesebanking sector despite Lebanons turbulent history.

Audis benevolent reach and contribution is outstanding. He is a founding member of theExecutive Committee of the Chronic Care Center and has also served as its treasurersince 1993. He is also a board member of the Notre Dame de Jamhour and the Lebanese

American University. He founded the Fondation Nationale du Patrimoine, Lebanons NationalHeritage Foundation and is an emeritus member of the Board of Trustees of InternationalCollege. He is one of the founding members of the St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital,a childrens cancer center, and founder of the Audi Foundation, which is dedicated tothe promotion, relaunching and appreciation of the professions of craftsmanship and therestoration of historical sites, urban spaces and streets, especially in the port city of Sidon.

He strives to boost the spirit of entrepreneurship as a member of Injaz, a non-governmentalorganization. He finances some 20 scholarships a year based on merit. He has contributedto UNICEF, the Chronic Care Center, the United Nations Development Program and SaintJudes Research Hospital and the Foyer de la Providence. He has been awarded no less

than 15 honors and distinctions in Lebanon and around the world.

Audi has encouraged art and the universe of artists by transforming his banks intoresplendent museums and showcases for great architecture. The headquarters of Banque

Audi in Switzerland houses an impressive collection of seventeenth century masterpieces.The new flagship headquarters of Audi Plaza Beirut is a feast for the eyes. It is considered aunique treasure and gem with its facade in the downtown area that was built by Lebaneseand European architects. It has on exhibit one of the finest and richest collections ofLebanese and French painters such as Jacques Villon, Edward Vuillard, Gaston Chaissac,Raoul Dufy, Francois Rouan, Marwan Bachi and scores of others.

APEAL PRIDE AWARDRaymond Wadih Audi

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Ali Jaber is a prominent Lebanes e journalist a nd TV personali ty, and is currently theGroup TV Director of MBC, the Arab worlds largest satellite broadcaster.

Aft er s tudy ing Busi ness Adm inis tra tio n at the Ame rica n Un ive rsit y in Bei rut asan undergraduate, Mr Jaber moved to New York to study for a Masters degreein Communication at Syracuse University. In 1986 he returned to Lebanon,at a time when many others were fleeing the country and the civil war. Hiscareer in journalism began soon after he arrived, when he picked up workas a war correspondent for The New York Times, The Times and the GermanPress Agency, and joined the Fine Arts faculty of Beirut University College. Hehelped set up their Broadcasting Department and taught a range of courses intelevision production.

As a journali st, Mr Jaber had the opportunit y to intervie w the late Rafi c Hariri, whowould become Prime Minister in 1992. It was Mr Hariri who approached Jaber to setup Future TV, the Hariri television network, which is still in operation today.

A decade lat er, Jaber was invited by S heikh Mohammed bi n Rashid al-Makto um, VicePresident of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, to work as a media consultant involved inrestructuring the TV operation of the government-owned Dubai Media Incorporated,and to revamp and re-launch its four national pan-Arab satellite channels.

In 2008 Jaber was invited by the Sheikh to set up a Communication School atthe American University in Dubai, and was named Dean of Mohammed Bin RashidSchool of Communication, which this year graduates fifty students with degreesin Journalism and Digital Storytelling. The school is unique in teaching all mediawriting courses in Arabic.

Jaber also serves on the Board of Directors of two non-governmental organizations,the Clinton Global Initiative and Young Arab Leaders, and is currently an ambassadorfor SANAD, a home hospice association in Lebanon.

Jaber spoke at the TEDxBeirut conference for inspirational leaders in 2011, anaddress about the official launch of The Global Classroom, a project he establishedat the American University in Dubai in partnership with the company Cisco. It is thefirst such initiative in the Arab world that gives students access to the best professors,business leaders and guest lecturers located around the globe, online.

Jabers current role is as Group TV Director of MBC, a post he has held sinceSeptember 2011. He is in charge of MBCs 13 television channels, and serves as acelebrity judge on popular television show, Arabs Got Talent.

He is currently studying for a PhD in the history of satellite television in the Arab world,at Cambridge University, and has been named as one of the 500 Most InfluentialMuslims in the world by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre, an independentnon-governmental research entity.

In over 30 years as an auctioneer at Christies, Hugh has conducted morethan 2,200 auctions, selling 290,000 lots for a total sum in excess of 1.85billion. The highlight of his career in the rostrum came in Hong Kong inNovember 2014 when he sold a 15th Century Chinese Imperial embroideredsilk Thangka for HK$348 million (28.9 million), the world record for anyChinese work of art sold by an international auction house.

Hugh has auctioned works of art from a number of historic collectionsincluding those of H.R.H. the late Princess Margaret, the Spencercollections at Althorp, the collection of the late Simon Sainsbury andin December 2011, part of the Elizabeth Taylor Collection in New York.Further interesting and unusual highlights have included Audrey Hepburns

Breakfast at Tiffanys dress which sold in December 2006 for 467,000;the oldest existing F.A. Cup which sold for 478,400 in May 2005 and Ursula

Andresss bikini from James B onds Dr No for 41,000 in February 2001.

Hugh is a much sought after auctioneer for high-profile national andinternational charity auctions and throughout his career has conductedover 600 sales raising in excess of 70 million for charitable causes. Hughhas conducted charity auctions all around the world, including in Bahrain,Chandigarh, Moscow, New Delhi, Paris, New York, Geneva, Monaco, Dubai,Beirut, Zurich, Doha, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and Casablanca.In 2005, he was chosen to conduct the BBCs inaugural televised celebrityauction in aid of Children in Need. In 2008, he conducted the auction forNelson Mandelas 90th Birthday Gala in London, selling the eight lots for atotal of 4.3 million.

Hugh joined Christies in 1978 as a furniture specialist. In 1984, he becameHead of the Furniture Department at Christies South Kensington and in thesame year conducted his first auction. In 1990, Hugh became Director ofSpecialist Departments and then after three years as Deputy Chairman, hewas appointed Chairman of Christies South Kensington in 1999. In 2006Hugh was appointed as Christies International Auctioneer.

CHRISTIES AUCTIONEERHugh Edmeades

MASTER OF CEREMONYAli Jaber

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OMAR ONSI(b.1901)

Landscape

Signed (lower left)Oil on panel40 x 43 cmcirca 1935Courtesy of a Private Collector

$15,000 - 25,000

Omar Onsi was a Lebanese artist who, after an attempt to study medicine, learnt

to paint with Khalil Saleeby. From 1922 to 1927, he travelled to Transjordan, where

he taug ht painti ng and E nglish to the childr en of Kin g Abdulla h. The di scovery of

the desert and its colors during this stay had a major influence on Onsis work.

In 1928, Onsi went to Paris to continue his training, where he remained for three

years, att ending th e Acadmie J ulian an d differe nt worksho ps. During this perio d,

Onsi focused on painting portraits, nudes, and Parisian scenery. In 1933 he

returned to Leban on, bring ing back a colorful Impression ist palette . From the n on,his work f ocused on the Leba nese land scape.

Omar Onsi stands apart among the founding fathers of Lebanese painting because

his life was so entrenched in his art that there is scarcely anything for a biographer to

extricate. Furthermore, the art itself was wholly blended with the light and landscape

of his country, with the humanity of a traditional Lebanon. This approach is fixed in

his portraits, little genre scenes, and images of a wonderfully happy land on which he

fastened his gaze and bestowed devotion.

Onsi died in 1969, and has since become one of Lebanons best-known artists.

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CSAR GEMAYEL(b.1898)

Portrait of a Woman

Signed (lower left)Oil on board50 x 40 cmcirca 1940Courtesy of a Private Collector

$ 9,000 - 12,000

Csar Gemayel was born in 1898 at Ain al-Touffaha near Bikfaya. As a young

student, Gemayel sta rted out s tudying p harmacolo gy, to which he was

genuine ly devoted. But he wa s a gifted painter an d, taught by Leban ese

master pai nter Kha lil Saleeby, it was art that he made h is lifes work.

Gemayel was most attracted to Impressionism and Fauvism, and his work and

talent were recognized in 1931, when he won first prize at the Paris Exhibition

Coloniale Internationale. The prestigious award set Gemayel firmly on anartistic p ath; he r eturned to his nativ e Lebanon , abandon ed any th oughts o f

being a p harmacist and turn ed his fu ll attent ion to dev eloping h is paintin g.

Enamored with his country, Lebanon was Gemayels main inspiration, its

mountai ns, villag es, folk lif e, city str eets and p eople. All t hese subje cts fed hi s

love of c olor, working in strong sh ades of re d, green a nd blue.

Gemayel died suddenly in 1958, and stands among the second generation of

the founding fathers of Lebanese painting, inspiring many who came after him.

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HABIB SROUR(b.1860)

Nu Acadmique

Oil on canvas52 x 60 cmcirca 1885Courtesy of a Private Collector

$8,000 - 12,000

Born in Lebanon in 1860, Habib Srour was 10 years-old when his

parents m oved to Ro me, where h e went on to study a t the Ins titute

of Fine Arts. Srour was an important figure in the artistic renaissance

that emerged in Lebanon at the end of the nineteenth century. He is

credited with pioneering principles of Modernist artistic practice, using

light, sh adow and form in a n expressive and evoca tive mann er.

Srour was much in demand as a portrait painter of prominent Lebaneseand Arab social, pol itical an d religious figures o f the Otto man Empir e.

As with a ll the art ists of h is generat ion, Srour was faith ful to t he

classical school, but this did not prevent him from breaking out of the

narrow fr amework of Formalism i n order to give himsel f some libe rty in

the choice and treatment of h is subjects. In his religious commissions,

which were highly sought-after, the artist adopted a more conservative

approach. It is his portraits, more experime ntal and expressive, for

which he is best known. Habib Srour died in 1938, but his work is as

relevant today in t he world of art as it w as 95 yea rs ago.

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ELIE KANAAN(b.1926)

Untitled

Signed (lower left)Oil on canvas40 x 50 cmcirca 1985Courtesy of the Elie Kanaan Family

$15,000 - 20,000

Born in Beirut in 1926, Elie Kanaan is a self-taught artist

whose artistic abilities were evident from a young age.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s he studied and travelled

to Paris and Italy before returning to Lebanon. In 1957

he won fi rst prize at the Salon du Printe mps, and th e

UNESCO prize in 1958. From 19 62, Kanaan participated

in many individual and grou p exhibitio ns bienn ales, art

fairs and salons worldwide as well as receiving a varietyof awards. These included a prize from the Lebanese

President of the Republic, the Philips prize, the Vendome

Prize in 1967, and two from the Sursock Museum. Kanaan

also serv ed as Profe ssor at th e Lebanes e Academy o f Art.

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SHAFIC ABBOUD(b.1926)

Untitled

Signed and dated (lower right and on the reverse)Tempera and oil on panel80 x 100 cm1958To be included in upcoming catalogue raisonn under Id1849Courtesy of the Shafic Abboud Family

$80,000 - 120,000

Born in Lebanon in 1926, Chafic Abboud graduated from the Lebanese

Academy o f Fine Ar ts in 194 7. Afte r moving to Paris, he f requented Andr

Lhotes workshop and was a pupil of the Cubist master Fernand Lger. In

1952 he enrolled at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Beaux-

Arts wher e he studi ed drawing a nd engrav ing. In 1 959, Ab boud parti cipated

in the fi rst Paris Bi ennale. H e was awarde d the Prix V ictor Cho quet in 1 961,

and gran ted solo ex hibitions in Franc e, Lebano n, Italy, German y, Holland,

and Denma rk. His work s featur e in the pe rmanent collection of the C entreGeorges Pompidou in Paris and hang in French government buildings.

A catalo gue raison n of A bbouds work ha s recently been publi shed by

the Gallery Claude Lemand, Paris. A major retrospective of the artist at

the Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, in 2011, shed light on more than 190

works spanning his entire painting career (1948-2003). The Beirut Exhibition

Center presented another extensive retrospective of Abbouds work in

2012. Abboud liv ed in Paris until he passed away in 2004 .

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SHAFIC ABBOUD(b.1926)

Untitled

Signed and dated (lower right)Mixed media on paper laid on canvas50 x 60.5 cm1959To be included in upcoming catalogue raisonn under Id1691Courtesy of the Shafic Abboud Family

$40,000 - 60,000

Born in Lebanon in 1926, Chafic Abboud graduated from the Lebanese

Academy o f Fine Ar ts in 194 7. Afte r moving to Paris, he f requented Andr

Lhotes workshop and was a pupil of the Cubist master Fernand Lger. In

1952 he enrolled at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Beaux-

Arts wher e he studi ed drawing a nd engrav ing. In 1 959, Ab boud parti cipated

in the fi rst Paris Bi ennale. H e was awarde d the Prix V ictor Cho quet in 1 961,

and gran ted solo ex hibitions in Franc e, Lebano n, Italy, German y, Holland,

and Denma rk. His work s featur e in the pe rmanent collection of the C entreGeorges Pompidou in Paris and hang in French government buildings.

A catalo gue raison n of A bbouds work ha s recently been publi shed by

the Gallery Claude Lemand, Paris. A major retrospective of the artist at

the Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, in 2011, shed light on more than 190

works spanning his entire painting career (1948-2003). The Beirut Exhibition

Center presented another extensive retrospective of Abbouds work in

2012. Abboud liv ed in Paris until he passed away in 2004 .

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PAUL GUIRAGOSSIAN(b.1926)

Untitled

Signed (lower right)Watercolor on paper73 x 52 cm1980Gebraniyyet Series.Certificate of authenticity from Guiragossian FoundationCourtesy of a Private Collector

$15,000 - 25,000

One of L ebanons most celebrated artists, Paul Guiragossian

was born in 1926 in Jerusalem, to Armenian refugee

parents. In 1939 the famil y moved to B eirut, whe re he lived

until his death in 1993. Guiragossian started to paint in

1942 at the Yarcon Studio, and began his artistic training

in 194 4 at the Italian A cademy Piet ro Langh etti. In 1956 h e

received a scholarsh ip to stud y at the A cademy of Fine Arts

in Floren ce, after which he spent man y years stu dying andpainting in Paris an d the Un ited States . His work i s present

in many collection s through out the Middle Ea st and acr oss

the world, including that of the Vatican Museum.

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ALFRED BASBOUS(b.1924)

Abstract

Signed and dated (on the base)Bronze with gold patina20 x 40 x 26 cm1972Edition 6/8Courtesty of the Alfred Basbous Family

$10,000 - 15,000

Born in Rachana, Lebanon, in 1924, three years following the

birth of his broth er Michel, Alfred Ba sbous had a peripatet ic

childhood. His family moved around, living among different

communities, as his father was a parish priest.

Alfr ed wo rked w ith ston e ear ly on , an d beg an ca rvin g wor ks

in wo od an d met al to o, pr imari ly to repres ent a nimal s an d

female nudes. In 1960, he received a scholarship from theFrench government and became a pupil of the sculptor

Ren Collamarini at LEcole Nationale Suprieure des

Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1961, his works were included in

the International Sculpture Exhibition at the Muse Rodin,

Paris. Returning home, Alfred drew inspiration from the

Modernism of Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore and Jean Arp,

as we ll as the natu re of Leba non, refle cted in hi s work on

the human body and feminine curves.

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MICHEL BASBOUS(b.1921)

Dancer

Signed (on the base)Bronze96 x 21 x 21 cm1952Edition 6/8Courtesy of the Michel Basbous Family

$30,000 - 40,000

Michel Basbous was born in Rachana, Lebanon, in 1921.

Between 1945 and 1949 he studied sculpture at the

Academie L ibanaise de Beaux-A rts in Beir ut. Between 1949

and 195 1 he stu died at LEcole Na tionale Su prieure de

Beaux-Arts in Paris, on a scholarship from the Lebanese

governmen t. He wen t back to Pa ris to stu dy in the atelier of

Ossip Zadkine between 1954 and 1955.

In 1957 he became a Professor of Sculpture at the American

University of Beirut, and returned to his native village of

Rachana in 1958, where he exhibited his sculptures and

turned Rachana into an artistic and cultural center. He married

Therese Aouad, a poet and an author in 1967. They had their

only child Anachar (Rachana spelled backwards) in 1969.

Afte r a f ruitf ul li fe, M iche l Bas bous passe d awa y in 198 1.

At a time when the c ount ry wa s rev isiti ng i ts he ritag e, hi s

oeuvre questioned the spread of modernity.

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DIA AZZAOUI(b.1939)

Imaginary Plant

Signed (on the base)Bronze51 x 49 cm2014Edition 3/7Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Claude Lemand

$30,000 - 40,000

Born in Baghdad in 1939, Azzawi studied art and archeology at the

Faculty of Arts at Baghdad University. 1965 represents many of

Azzawis promis ing firsts, though it was by n o means h is careers

zenith: h is first so lo exhibiti on was he ld in Bagh dad; his fi rst two

collective exhibitions, one of which toured Beirut, Rome, Vienna, and

Madrid; and his first international exhibition at the Premire Triennale

of International Art in New Delhi. In 1976 Azzawi was appointed Art

Consultant at the Iraqi Cultural Centre in London. His work organisingexhibitions for Arab and Iraqi artists at the Center was instrumental

in intro ducing Ar ab art to t he British public. Th e Museum of Modern

Art, Bagh dad; Victor ia and Al bert Museu m, Londo n; Librar y of

Congress, Washington D.C.; and Arab Monetary Fund, Abu Dhabi

comprise a few of the many public collections in which Azzawis

works hang. He now lives in London where he is an artist-collector,

and he r egularly pu blishes h is comment ary on Ir aqi contem porary

art and A rab art. A zzawis epic drawi ng Sabra a nd Shatil a Massacr e,

1982-83, is currently on view at Tate Modern in London.

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JAMIL MOLAEB(b.1948)

Signed (lower right)Oil on canvas155 x 110 cm2014Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Janine Rubeiz

$10,000 - 15,000

Jamil Molaeb was born in Lebanon in 1948. Trained under some of the

most distinguished Lebanese Modernist painters, Jamil Molaebs signature

paintings conceive of the abstract color field as a traditional landscape,

evoking through those minimal pictorial frameworks the magic simplicity

of miniatures and icons. Molaeb has the unique ability to marry diverse

techniques, for instance folkloric woodcuts with a bright, Expressionist palette.

Molaeb has featured in myriad solo and group exhibitions in Lebanon, Algeria,and the United States since 1966, including a number of art fairs: Art Abu

Dhabi, Beirut Art Fair, Art Dubai and Art14 London. He has published four

books, including Xylographies-Woodcuts with Galerie Janine Rubeiz in 2014.

His work has been acquired by public and private collections including The

World Bank in Washington D.C.

Molaeb holds a Masters degree from the Pratt Institute in New York and a

PhD in Art Education from the University of Ohio. He was formerly Professor

of Art at the Lebanese American University and the Lebanese University.

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CHAOUKI CHAMOUN(b.1942)

I Invent Peace When I Do Not Find it

Signed and dated (lower left)Acrylic on canvas160 x 145.5 cm2014Courtesy of the artist

$40,000 - 60,000

Chaouki Chamoun was born in Lebanon in 1942. In 1972 he

received h is Diploma o f Higher Studies in Painting from the

Lebanese University in Beirut. The first in his class, he was awarded

a six-year fellowship from the Lebanese U niversity to pursue his

graduate studies in the Unit ed States. I n 1975 , he receiv ed his MFA

from Syracuse University in New York, followed by a PhD in Art

Education from NYU, from which he was awarded a Meritorious

Commendation for High Scholastic Achievement. He has had overthirty solo shows since 1975, and has participated in over fifty

group exh ibitions a nd bienn ales inclu ding at R ochester M emorial

Museum, Sursock Museum, Al-Khorafi International Arabic Biennale

(2006), Alexandria Biennale (2008) and the Katzen Art Museum. His

work is also held in several public and private art collections.

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NABIL NAHAS(b.1949)

Tyrian Purple

Signed (on the reverse)Acrylic on canvas122 x 122 cm2009Courtesy of the artist

$100,000 - 150,000

Nabil Nahas was born in Beirut in 1949, but spent the first ten years

of his life in Cairo, before his family returned to Lebanon. In 1969 he

arrived in the Unit ed States f or Underg raduate st udies, ha ving grown

up familiar with Western culture especially the art and literature of

France. Nahas also has vivid memories of the books and catalogues

that gave him his first exposure to the abstract painting of post-war

New York. He received degrees from Louisiana State University

in 197 1 and Yale U niversity in 1973 . Since th en he ha s built areputati on as one of Americ as foremost c ontempora ry artists , with

many solo shows, first at the Ro bert Miller Gallery, New York; Ga llerie

Montenay, Paris; Sperone Westwater, New York; and Gallerie Xippas,

Paris. He has participated in several group exhibitions, including the

Basel Art Fair, 1979, and the XXVth Bienal de So Paulo, 2002.

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AZA DE KKE R(b.1949)

Beyrut

Signed (on the reverse of the right panel)Mixed technique on canvasDiptych (each 170 x 250 cm)2014Courtesy of the artist and Galeri Zilberman

$150,000 - 200,000

Azade Kk er was born in Istan bul in 1 949. She is an aca demic,

a painte r and inst allation artist fro m Turkey, currently res iding in

Germany. Her dual nationality has defined her work and identity

as an ar tist with a multicul tural back ground r eflected in her

multi-fa ceted work wit h photogr aphy, ceramics, in stallation and

painting . After co mpleting h er studies at the I stanbul A cademy

of Fine Arts in 1971, Kker pursued further studies at the Berlin

School of Fine Arts in the Department of Industrial Design andthe Department of Sculpture. Since the early nineties, Kker

has been teaching in several Universit ies in Germa ny and is

currently a professor at the Braunschweig Technical University.

Her first exhibitions were held in the 1980 s and she continues

to exhibit her work at a global level today.

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AKRAM ZA ATARI(b.1966)

Untitled (Plane 6)

Archival inkjet print145 x 100 cm2013Courtesy of the artist and Sfeir Semler Gallery

$15,000 - 20,000

Born in 1966, Zaatari is one of Lebanons most globally-renowned

contemporary artists. Zaataris practice reflects on the shifting nature of

borders and the production and circulation of images, in the context of the

current political divisions in the Middle-East. His videos and photographic

installations explore notions of surveillance, and the deployment of

technology in the service of power, resistance, and memory.

As co-fo under of the Arab I mage Foun dation, Z aatari is d eeplyinvested i n examini ng how ph otography serves to shape no tions of

aestheti cs, posture s and soci al codes, lo oking at the presen t throug h

a wealth of past ph otograph ic records f rom the re gion. Zaa tari has

been focu sing since 1999 o n the arc hive of St udio Sheh razade in

Saida, Lebanon, studying, indexing, and presenting the work of

photogra pher Hash em el-Mada ni, as a r egister of social rela tionships

and phot ographic p ractices. Z aatari repr esented L ebanon at the Venice

Biennale in 2013 with Letter to a Refusing Pilot.

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MARWAN SAHMARANI(b.1970)

The Crying Man

Signed (lower right) dated (on the reverse)Oil on canvas170 x 150 cm2014The last painting (IV) of the series painted exclusively for this auctionCourtesy of the artist

$18,000 - 25,000

Marwan Sahmarani was born in Beirut in 1970, and graduated

from the Atelier Met de Penninghen in Paris, France in 1989.

Sahmarani has participated in a variety of solo exhibitions

in Lond on, Dubai , Canada and Beirut as well as group

exhibitions in Munich, Washington D.C. and Mexico. His most

recent gr oup museu m exhibitio ns are Told/Un told/Retold at

the Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar in 2010 and

The Feast of the Damned at the Museum of Art & Design,New York, USA in 2010. Sahmarani was also one of three

recipients of the p restigious Abraaj Ca pital Art Prize in 20 10.

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OUSSAMA BAALBAKI(b.1978)

Untitled

Signed and dated (lower right)Acrylic on canvas150 x 150 cm2014Courtesty of the artist and Agial Gallery

$10,000 - 15,000

Born in Beirut in 1978, Oussama Baalbaki graduated

with honors in 2002 from the Lebanese University

School of Fine Arts. In 2009, he received the Silver

Medal in Painting at the International Jeux de la

Francophonie, in which he represented Lebanon.

He has had four solo exhibitions since 2004,

includin g a show a t Agial Ga llery, Beirut, a nd more

recently, a pai nting exh ibition h osted by FFA PrivateBank in Lebanon. Baalbaki has participated in various

group exh ibitions i n Dubai, L ebanon, Qatar, Germany

and the US. He no w lives and works in Bei rut.

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ABDUL RAHMAN KATANANI(b.1983)

Splendor in the Grass

Signed (on the reverse)Mixed media on canvas140 x 380 cm2014Courtesty of the artist and Agial Gallery

$20,000 - 30,000

Abdul Ra hman Kat anani is a Palestin ian artis t born in Beirut

in 198 3. He grad uated with a degree in Fine Arts from

the Lebanese College, where he also achieved an MA in

Painting. Katanani has lived all his life as a refugee in Shatila

camp, Lebanon. He has been exhibiting in caricature and

fine art shows in Beirut, Paris and Kuala Lumpur since 2001.

He was twice awarded a prize by the Sursock Museum at

the occasion of their Salon dAutomne in 2009, and hasalso recei ved the Youn g Artist P rize, and a Special Men tion

from the Jury in 2008. Katanani is currently attending a 15

months r esidency a t La Cit Internat ionale des Arts, Pari s.

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NADIM KARAM(b.1957)

The Urban Zoo

Signed (lower right)Mixed media on canvas140 x 205 cm2013Courtesy of the artist and Ayyam Gallery

$20,000 - 30,000

Born in Senegal in 1957, Nadim Karam is a multidisciplinary artist. A

prominent figure in the Leban ese art sce ne, he gra duated fr om the

American University of Beirut and recei ved gradua te and pos tgraduate

degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan. Karam has exhibited in

galleries a nd instit utions i nternati onally, contribu ting to su ch nota ble

events as the Liverpool Biennale, the Venice Biennale and the Gwangju

Biennial in South Korea. His works are housed in corporate and

cultural foundations in the Arab World and Europe, Asia, and Australia.In 1996, he established lAtelier Hapsitus, a studio that he defines

as the s atellite gr ouping o f young architects and design ers aroun d

happenin gs and si tuations . Atelier H apsitus h as become a vehicle

for Karams unique oeuvre, boasting a number of works and projects

that blend architecture, design and art. His sculptural series, entitled

Closets & Closets was on display at the Institut du Monde Arabe,

Paris, in 2012-2013, while Ayyam Gallery, London presented his solo

show Sho oting th e Cloud fo r their gra nd openin g in Janu ary 201 3.

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MARWAN KASSAB BACHI(b.1934)

Marionette 1

Signed (on the reverse)Pencil and gouache on paper21 x 30 cm2007Courtesty of the artist and Sfeir Semler Gallery

$6,000 - 8,000

Born in 1934 in Damascus, Syria, Marwan Kassab Bachi, known as Marwan, is one of

the most distinguished Syrian artists. After studying Arabic Literature in Damascus,

he moved t o Germany in 1957 . He unde rtook a deg ree in Pai nting at the High er

Institute of Fine Arts in Berlin under the supervision of Hann Trier, where he later

became a t eacher. He was gr anted a pe rmanent C hair at t he Univer sity since 1980.

He founded the Summer Academy at Darat Al-Funun (under the patronage of Suha

Shoman) Art Foundation in Jordan in 1999. From 1967 until the present, Marwan

has exhi bited widely a cross the world, predom inantly i n Germany, Fran ce, the US A,and Syria . He was of fered a sch olarship from the C it des Art s, Paris in 1973, a nd

granted t he Karl H ofer (19 66) and Fred Thiel er (2002 ) awards, t he Merit O rder of th e

Federal Republic of Germany (2005) and the Lebanese Cultural Forum Award (2005).

His work is highly prized and forms part of many international museum collections,

such as the Insti tut du M onde Arab e, Paris; Th e Museum of the N ational L ibrary; Th e

National Museum of Damascus; The Syrian Ministry of Culture and the Presidential

and Peopl es Palace, Syria ; the Car negie Mu seum of A rt, USA, an d in many of

Germanys art museums and institutions. His work is also in numerous prestigious

private co llections a round th e world. Ma rwan curre ntly lives and works in Berlin.

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AYMAN BAALBAKI(b.1975)

The Parliament

Signed (lower left)Acrylic on canvas200 x 250 cm2014Courtesty of the artist and Agial Gallery

$100,000 - 150,000

Born in Odeisse, Lebanon in 1975, Baalbaki received his BA in Painting

from the Lebanese University in Beirut, in 1998, and later graduated from

the Ecole Suprieure des Arts Dcoratifs in Paris. During the summer

of 2001, he joined the Academy in Darat Al-Funun, Amman, under the

supervisi on of th e artist M arwan Kas sab Bachi. Baalbaki exhibited in

Lebanon at the Agial Gallery with Transfiguration Apocalyptique and Ici et

Dailleurs as well as Absence-Presence in 2002 at the Maison du Liban in

Paris. Since 1995 he has participated in numerous exhibitions, art showsand bien nales in L ebanon, Jordan, Sy ria, Egypt , Nigeria, a nd Argen tina.

Baalbaki has been awarded the prize of Fine Art by Young Artists of

Lebanon in Tripoli. He is a member of the Lebanese Artists Association.

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APEAL MISSI ON STATEMEN T

The Associa tion for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon ( APEAL) is a non-

profit organization dedicated to showcasing and supporting Lebanese artists by taking their

work beyond conventional borders. The association encourages creativity in all its forms and

is committed to a belief in the transformative potential of art and access to culture.

BEIRUT CONTEMPORARY

APEAL is d elighted to be develop ing Lebanons first m useum for modern an d contempo rary

art. Beirut Contemporary will be a ground-breaking hub for art, holding a core collection

from Lebanon and across the region, as well as hosting multi-faceted exhibitions that

speak to global art contexts. Dynamic public programming will engage Beiruts diverse

communities and international audience, and the museum will be dedicated to nurturingthe next generation of artistic and curatorial talent in the Middle-East. An independent

institution, Beirut Contemporary will be a site for discourse, creativity and public education,

in an inspiring building designed by one of Lebanons leading architecture houses.

SCHOLARSHIPS AND GLOBAL PROMOTION OF LEBANESE ART

The founda tion nurture s nascent Lebanese artists a t Universit y-level th rough its schol arship

fund, and sets up exchange programs between Lebanese artists and their counterparts from

colleges and art academies abroad. In so doing, APEAL broadens the horizons of Lebanese

artists, and connects and mobilizes an international network of artists and institutions.

APEAL has organized e xhibitions in leading art world capi tals, includ ing Convergen ce: New

Art from L ebanon in Wash ington D.C., 2010 and Subtit led: with N arrative s from Leba non

in London, 2011. In 2013, APEAL pioneered Lebanons participation at the 55th Venice

Biennale in Italy, bringing to the Lebanese pavilion an installation by internationally-renowned

artist Akram Zaatari, entitled Letter to a Refusing Pilot.

The APEAL Pride Award is presente d annually to an indiv idual for out standing ac hievement

and distinguished service in promoting Lebanese art and culture at home or abroad. APEAL

is proud to honor such exceptional individuals as Sylvia Agemian, curator of the Sursock

Museum, Christine Tohme, curator and founder of Ashkal Alwan, and Raymond Audi, patron

of the arts as well as chairman of the board and general manager of Bank Audi SAL Audi

Saradar Group, Lebanon.

APEAL also commissions s elect art ists for p ublic art in stallations , stimulati ng and enric hing

the countrys cultural fabric. Such public programming contributes to APEALs vision for avibrant and forward-thinking post-conflict society in Lebanon.

SUPPORT

APEALs project and progr ams are ma de possible through the generous cont ributions of

the organizations friends and supporters, individual and institutional. APEAL is extremely

grateful for the ongoing support of its friends and community.

APEAL

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APEAL MEMBERS

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Rita Nammour, President

Sandra Abou Nader, Vice-President

Nada El Khoury, Vice-President

Issam Shammas, Treasurer

Nada Al Assaad, Secretary

Nayla Al Assaad

Abraham Karabaj akian

Zeina Karam

Ramez Shehade

BOARD MEMBERSDiane Abela

Samir Abillama

Taline Aynilian Boladian

Katarina Tarazi

Nora Boustany

Liliane Chammas Bridi

Maria Geagea Arida

Michele Haddad

Nina Idriss

Eli Khoury

APEAL USA

Rita Nammour, Chairperson

Thomas Abraham, President

Nina Idriss, Executive Vice

President / Treasurer

Sandra Ghosn Abounader, Vice

President / Secretary

Nora Boustany, Assistant Secretary

Marc Wertheeimer, Assistant

Secretary

Claudia Audi, Director

Marc H. Malek, Director

MANAGING DIRECTOR

Anna Ogden-Smit h


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APEAL WISHES TO THANK

Universit Saint-Joseph

Abniah

Mr. Bernard Calil

Rafik El-Khoury & Partners

Quantum Communications

Mrs. Nayla Saad

For their faith in the A Museum in the Making project.

Their spirited support and deployment of resources have

been decisi ve and in strumenta l in lettin g the proje ct take of f.

APEAL WISHES TO THANKThe professional experts designated to develop

studies f or the mu seum project :

Art Reoriented for strategic planning and programming guideline.

Avesta Group for capital, operational and business planning.

El-Khoury Law-Firmfor legal assistance and procedures.

RAA Ralph Applebaum Associatesfor institutional planning,

concept, and programming development.

Strategy & Cofor feasibility studies.

All names by alphabetical order All names by alphabetical order


THE ARTISTSDia Azzaoui Abdulrahman Katanani

Ayman Baalbaki Azadeh Kker

Oussama Baalbaki Jamil Molaeb

Chaouki Chamoun Nabil Nahas

Nadim Karam Marwan Sahmarani

Marwan Kassab Bachi Akram Zaatari

THE ARTIST FAMILIES

Christine Abboud Fadi Basbous

Anachar Basbou s Elie Kanaan Fam ily

THE GALLERIES

Agial Galler y Galerie Janine R ubeiz

Ayyam Gallery Sfeir Semler Ga llery

Galerie Claude Lemand Galeri Zilberman

PRIVATE COLLECTORS

KA collection Nayla Saad

Who have generously offered artworks for the auction.

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Sponsors and supportersfor their consideratecontributions to the A Museum in the Making kickoff event.



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Mrs.Al in eNassar


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Elena AnoutiZiad Antar

Zeina Arida

Mirene Arsanios

Fady Aziz

Saleh Barakat

Sam Bardawil

Nadine Begdache

Gregory Buchakjian

Carla Chammas

Farid Chehab

Caline Chidiac

Samer Dada

Sandra Dagher

Who contributed their precious time and shared valuable insights and recommendations

APEAL WISHES TO THANKAll thos e who atte nded the A Museum in the M aking la unching event

A special tribute is paid to th e late arch itect Mrs. Magda Chammas, whose fir st design

was an inspiration to the museum project very early on in the process. Her spirit lives

on through the realization of this dream.

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Rachel DedmanHana Elwell

Octavian Esanu

Omar Fakhoury

Mayssa Fattouh

Till Fellrath,

Nayla Geagea

Michael Geha

Massimiliano Gioni

Mia Habis

Pascal Hachem

Joana Hadjithomas

Nayla Hage Chahine

Nathalie Harb

Venetia PorterRami Rafih

Omar Rajeh

Walid Sadek

Nour Salame

La Sdnaoui

Hanan Sayed Worrell

Kirsten Scheid

Georges Sfeir

Andre Sfeir Sem ler

Mounira Al Solh

Lina Silisty

Christine Tohme

Paola Yacoub

Maya Zbib

Melanie IdeLamia Joreige

Nada Kano

Nadim Karam

Naila Kettaneh Kunig

Fadi Mansour

Marc Mouarkech

Rabih Mrou

Csar Nammour

Joe Namy

Naji Naufal

Nadim Noujeim

Elsy Oueiss

Jack Persekian


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