Portraits by Hibrawi ’96 Highlight Complexity of Syrian Conflict

The work of Kinda Hibrawi ’96 was recently featured in The Postcolonialist, an alternative online publication. The piece described how the Syrian-American painter has sought to highlight the complexity of the conflict in Syria through a series of portraits that also feature posts from Twitter. The article described Ms. Hibrawi’s work as “carefully crafted visages of real children residing in refugee camps. Each canvas recalls the site of a particular massacre (Ghouta, Houla) and overlays words with the face of a child gazing directly at the viewer.” According to the piece, Ms. Hibrawi, who is also co-founder of the Zeitouna Program for Displaced Syrian Children, is currently working on her next Twitter portrait, based on the Qubeir Massacre. Read the full piece here.

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