Ibrahim Ghannam
Ibrahim Hassan Kheite (Arabic إبراهيم حسن خيته, DMG Ibrāhīm Ḥasan Haita; * 1930 in al - Yadschur, Palestine, † 1984 in Beirut ), better known by the stage name, " Ibrahim Ghannam " ( إبراهيم غنام, DMG Ibrāhīm Ġannām ), was an artist, who is considered one of the founders of the Palestinian art painting movement. His pictures describe the daily life of the Palestinian population in his country before the Nakba. He painted scenes of village life in a naive style with bright colors.
Ghannam suffered since his childhood from gout and used throughout his life a wheelchair. His reputation as a professional painter was already in the camp "Tall az- Za ʿ tar " east of the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Ibrahim Ghannam was a founding member of the Foundation of the Association of Palestinian artists and the Foundation of the General Federation of Arab artists.
During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Israeli army captured some of his paintings from an exhibition in West Beirut. Other paintings by him were lost in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion.
Ghannam is the subject of the documentary " Palestinian visions " of Adnan Mdanat of 1977.
About the expulsion from Palestine Ghannam said in an interview:
"I feel that my life stopped at the age of 17, because that's how old I was when I left, and I only live when I dream of these days. "