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QASSIM HADDAD / Poetry and
LOBNA AL AMEEN / Painting

till January 22nd, 2009

Qassim Haddad is one of the greatest Arab poets of the present, and Lobna Al Ameen is a paintress since 20 years. Both artists are from the Kingdom of Bahrain and show how close can be poetry and painting. In the presence of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Ahmed Yousif Mohamed Aldoseri, Qassim Haddad recited to the opening verses of his poetry.

Qassim Haddat
Born in Bahrain in 1948.
Founding member of the Association of Writers in Bahrain (AWB) in 1969
Editor in chief of "Kalimat", a literary journal of AWB
Awarded the Lebanese Cultural Forum award in Paris , 2001, and Sultan Al Owais award in UAE in the field of poetry in 2002.
Founding member of "Awal Theatre" in Bahrain
He has personal home page in internet www.qhaddad.com
Founder of "jehat Alshir" (the direction of poetry) web site in 1994 (www.jehat.com)
In 2008 Received a grant of literary from Künstlerprogramm des (DAAD)Artists-in-Berlin Programme to reside in Berlin for one year.


Literary work:
Good Omen, Beirut, 1970, Exodus of Hussain's Head from the Traitorous Cities, Beirut 1972, The Second Blood, Beirut, 1975, The Heart of Love, Beirut, 1980, Theatre in Bahrain, Experience and Horizon, Bahrain, 1980, Resurrection, Beirut, 1980, Splinters, Beirut, 1982, Relating, Beirut, 1982, Alnahrawan, Bahrain, 1983, The shields (jointly with Ameen Saleh) Morocco, 1989 - Damascus, 2004, Walking Guarded with Ibexes, London, 1990, Solitude of the Queens, Bahrain, 1992, Critique of hope, Beirut, 1995, The Story of Majnoon Layla (jointly with Deya Azzawi) Bahrain, London, 1996, Not by this Way nor by the other, Kuwait 1997, Qassim's Grave, Bahrain, 1997, All poetry issues (2 books) Beirut, 2000, Having a share of Passion, Beirut 2000, Treatment of distance, Tunisia 2000, Beirut, 2002, The Impossible Blue, (jointly with photographer Saleh Alazaz.) Text translated to English and French., Singapore 2001, The workshop of hope, Beirut, 2004, Cairo, 2007, The sorceress woke me up, Beirut 2004, Oh wolf, how beautiful you are, Beirut, 2006, You are not someone's guest, Beirut 2007, Fascination of the question, Beirut, 2008





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Lobna Al Ameen - Bahrain

Solo Exhibitions: ABWAB , Bahrain Arts Society, Bahrain,1999, Ashtar Gallery Damascus, 2000, Music on the Terrace, Bahrain Arts Society, Bahrain, 2003, Gallery Europa Paris, 2005, Salute to Ebrahim Alorrayed UNESCO, Paris, 2008
Group Exhibitions: Number of group exhibitions for the benefit of charitable organizations in Bahrain since, 1989, 3rd Egyptian International Print Triennale - Cairo, 1999, 5th Triennale Mondine D'estampes 2000, Four Bahraini Artists, at Dar Al Bareh Gallery, Bahrain, October 2000, 8th International Cairo Biennale, 2001, Sharjah Biennale , 2001, Bahrain Cultural week, Kuwait 2001, Bahrain annual arts exhibition, Bahrain , December 2000, 2001 ,2002 ,2003 .2004, 2005, 2008, Four artists from Bahrain , at Dar Alanda Gallery, Amman 2002, Four artists from Bahrain at Galerie am Berg, Konigslutter, Germany 2002, Galeria Lorizen, Paris , May 2002, First international biennale of mini prints ? Tatovo , Macedonia , 2002, Arts exhibition in support of the Palestinians people, Amman 2002, 3rd International Small Engraving Exhibition, Cermona - Italy 2002, etching & printing exhibition, Bahrain Arts Society, Bahrain , 2003, One Composition and four directions (1st) , at Dar Albareh Art Gallery , Bahrain, 2003, About the Place exhibition, at the Frank Welkenhuysen Gallery in Utrecht, Holland ,2003, 9th Cairo International Biennale, 2003, EMMAR international art symposium, DUBAI, UAE, 2004, Bahrain - Assilah Arts & culture Forum, Bahrain, April 2004, One Composition and four directions (2nd) , at Dar Alkoufah , London ,2004, Assilah Forum , Morocco ,2004, 2X20 at Fatih Almudares Gallery - Damascus,2005, Celebration of the women international day , Alsayed Gallery - Damascus,2005, Celebrating Kuwait liberation day,Kuwait fine art society - Kuwait , 2005 In place of soul , Bahrain fine art society - Bahrain,2005, Joint exhibition with painters from Bahrain , Algezeera art centre - Cairo,2005, Annual exhibition of the Bahrain fine art society - Bahrain, 2005, Solo exhibition - Europia Gallery- Paris - 2005, Joint exhibition with painters from Bahrain, Dublin, Ireland, 2005, One composition and four directions (3rd) - Albareh Gallery - Bahrain, 2005, Bahrain Embassy at Paris, national day exhibition, 2005, One composition and four directions (4th) - four walls, Jordan, 2006, July 06 exhibition- Europia Gallery- Paris, 2006, Claude Lemand Gallery- Paris, 2006, Joint exhibition- Europia Gallery - Paris, 2007, Joint exhibition - UNISCO Paris, 2007, Art lounge, banyan tree, Bahrain, 2008, Contemporary Art Of Bahrain, Art Center Berlin, 2008