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Shadi Alzaqzouq
Shadi Alzaqzouq (; born 1981), also known as Shadi Al-Zaqzouq, is a Libyan-born Palestinian visual artist, activist, and musician. His hyperrealist paintings focus on themes of evolution and land occupation. Alzaqzouq has lived in France since 2007. Early life and education Shadi Alzaqzouq was born in 1981, in Benghazi, Libya. His parents immigrated to Libya from Jaffa, Palestine. The family moved in 1995 to Gaza Strip, Gaza in Palestine, after the 1995 Oslo II Accord. He studied music at the Palestine Technical College in Deir al-Balah, where he graduated. He moved to Paris in 2007 to continued his studies in painting at Paris 8 University Vincennes-Saint-Denis, where he graduated with a BFA degree in 2009. Career He taught music for the next five years in a primary school in Gaza. In 2002, Alzaqzouq joined an artist collective known as Shababeek (), in Gaza. He won the art residency award at the "International City of Arts" in Paris from the Abdul Mohsen Qattan Foundation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benghazi
Benghazi () () is the List of cities in Libya, second-most-populous city in Libya as well as the largest city in Cyrenaica, with an estimated population of 859,000 in 2023. Located on the Gulf of Sidra in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, Benghazi is also a major seaport. A Greeks, Greek colony named History of Benghazi, Euesperides had existed in the area from around 525 BC. In the 3rd century BC, it was relocated and refounded as the Ptolemaic Kingdom, Ptolemaic city of Berenice. Berenice prospered under the Romans, and after the 3rd century AD it superseded Cyrene, Libya, Cyrene and Barca (ancient city), Barca as the centre of Cyrenaica. The city went into decline during the Byzantine Empire, Byzantine period and had already been reduced to a small town before Muslim conquest of Egypt, its conquest by the Arabs. After around four centuries of peaceful Ottoman Tripolitania, Ottoman rule, in 1911, Kingdom of Italy, Italy captured Benghazi and the rest of Ottoman Tripolitania, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
