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= Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui = Name: Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui

Nationality: Lebanese, Belgian

Birthday: September 15, 1945-Present, (78 age)

Occupation: Artist

Skills: Painter, Graphic Designer,, Illustrator and Writer.

Spouse: Marwan Sehnaoui

Children: Khalill Sehnaoui, Salim Sehnaoui?

= Biography: = Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui is born in Alexandria, Egypt, she studied in the Silvio Art Academy after hours to learn about art and trained by Master Sebastsi to learn Tempura painting. But in 1962 she and her family moved to Lebanon with her Lebanese parents and studied American of University Beirut (AUB) to study in arts, however that class specialization did not exist in that time in AUB. So she traveled to the United States, and transfer as a double major studied in fine arts and graphic design in Arizona of University/ University of Arizona. Sehnaoui's art created a variety of works ranging from painting, writing, sculpture.

After 1967 Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui had moved back after her graduation for her education, she was hired by the Lebanese government, and worked on different branch of the government in collaboration to a new identity for Lebanon. And in the 1970s she was in charge of the Graphic Art Department of the Lebanese National Council of Tourism / Ministry of Tourism and was commissioned to create a national logo for the tourism organization, which was the first example of a "rebranding" in the Arab world. Then president of Lebanon Suleiman Frangieh (1910-92) has requested Bassili Sehnaoui to create stamps that feature of ancient Lebanese costumes in 1971 and 1972, for the Lebanese public television station, but specifically a channel for Tele Liban, and created some logos ranged from hotel association, publishing housing, to books for tourism of cooking. But as well she worked on packaging, posters, films, and book illustrations as well. She later then learned printing and typography, and teach taught two disciplines in Lebanese universities.

Bassili Sehnaoui held many individual exhibitions, specifically the Beirut J. F. Kennedy Cultural Center in 1973; the Gallery Epreuve d'Artiste, Beirut; Gallery Nicole Belier, Paris; Al Thurath Al Araby, Saudi Arabia; Gallery Green Art, Dubai; Gallery Janine Rubeiz, Beirut; and Gallery M, Paris. And collaborated in group exhibitions, Like Saga, Paris; at the Arte Javits Center, New York; Platform international at Strassi Gallery, Washington, DC; Art Multiple, Duesseldorf, Germany; Liban: le regard des peintres, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; the Artist's View, Barbicon Center, London; Salon d'Automne, Paris; Salon d'Automne, Beirut; Salon d'Automne du Cheval, Saumur; Art Multiple, Duesseldorf; and St'art, Strasbourg France.

When Bassili Sehnaoui encountered the Israeli War or the "Lebanese Civil War" (1975-1990). During the war she is painting the tragic scenes and events, even before the war, for instance about her contribution from her works is "Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui’s work offers an intricate perspective of Lebanon’s rich cultural and socio-political history. The works are sure to engage the viewer into questioning many of the contradictions that remain in the country, even today, while offering the opportunity to enjoy an eclectic body of work."

After the war on the 1990s, Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui has produced albums of lithographs based on Phoenician legends and practicing porcelain painting, while still working as a illustrator and designers. And her art styles is influenced by Middle Eastern cultural heritage as demonstrated by flat colors in both Byzantine Icons and Persian Miniatures. As her work are personal interpretation of space where shapes and line interpenetrates in colorful harmonies. Currently, Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui is currently lives and works in Beirut with husband Marwan, President of the Lebanese Order of Malta and sons Salim Sehnaoui and Khalil Sehnaoui.

Achievements:

 * In 1970s her collaboration and commission of designing a logo for National Council of Tourism for country Lebanon that is a vertical design and a balance of Kufic writing had survived and used for 50 years later, Also created many different designs of stamps, posters, films, logos for some institutions ,
 * Her work won several prizes and can be seen in the Museum of Prints in Alexandria, the Sursock Museum in Beirut, the art collection for the future Art Center of the American. University of Beirut, and the Bank Audi Art Collection as well as in many private collections around the world.
 * She is known by her depictions of the (Lebanese Civil War) by her artworks.

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