Helen the Writer, Painter and Woman

Mark Hachem Gallery invites you to a talk about Helen Khal’s work with Nayla Tamraz, Cesar Nammour and Nada Awar Jarrar.

This talk is a tribute to a lady who had a great impact on the Lebanese art scene: a maverick, a prodigious woman of multiple talents. El Khal was ahead of her time, she took arts into new perspectives. Teacher, writer, art critic, and artist, in 1963 she founded and directed Lebanon’s first permanent art gallery, Gallery One.

Since 1966 she wrote more than a thousand articles on contemporary art in Lebanon and the Arab World for diverse, local and international publications. In 1975, she made a 22- university tour across the United States to give slide lectures on Arab art. Known also as an educator, she taught painting at the American University of Beirut and at the Lebanese America University. In 1976, she wrote The Woman Artist in Lebanon, the first book to address the subject of Arab women artists.