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Jamil Molaeb was born in Baissour, Casa of Aley in Lebanon in 1948. He got his D.E.S. at the Institute of Fine Arts at the Lebanese University of Beirut, joined the Fine Arts Institution in Algeria, got his M.F.A. at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn - New York, and Ph.D. at Ohio State University, both in USA. He taught art in many institutions and universities since 1976 and held more than twenty-three individual exhibitions and participated in more than fifty local and international exhibitions and sculpture symposia. He is a dedicated art teacher and has more than a dozen written or illustrated works. Molaeb traveled widely and painted extensively in all the countries that he visited. However, his main subject has always been his village; the various aspects of its daily life, its social environment and entrenched traditions. His aim is to reach universality through the specificity of his own village.