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Born in Hama, Syria in 1961, Safwan Dahoul has recently become one of the Arab world’s more prominent
painters.
After graduating from the Faculty of Fines Arts in Damascus at the top of his class in 1983, Dahoul went
on to receive a scholarship to study abroad from the Ministry of Higher Education in 1987. Choosing to
travel to Belgium due to its rich artistic heritage, particularly its 16th century Flemish school of painting, he
obtained a doctorate from the Higher Institute of Plastic Art (showing 500 of 1293 characters). |
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