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Assil Diab (Vorlage:Langx) is a Sudanese visual artist, graphic designer and graffiti artist, based in United States.

Biography

Early life and education

Assil Diab was born in Romania and moved with her parents to Qatar as a child. She attended the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and in Richmond, Virginia, USA, and graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design. She also holds a diploma in Digital Marketing and Advanced Social Media Marketing.

Career

Since her graduation she has worked as a freelance graphic designer and graffiti artist, designing logos and branding for companies as well as commissioned to paint the walls of restaurants, cafes, shops and businesses.Vorlage:Citation needed

Diab works as a freelance graphic designer and graffiti artist. She has been called the first female graffiti artist in Qatar and in Sudan. Before she moved into freelancing as a graffiti artist, she worked at Doha Film Institute (DFI) and for Al Jazeera Children's Channel.Vorlage:Citation needed

In 2019, she went back to Sudan, where she undertook an artistic project to honour Sudan's protesting citizens, who lost their lives during the Sudanese revolution. For this project, she created murals of the victims on walls of their respective family homes.

In 2020, she won a dissemination award from UNESCO and i4policy for a self-initiated street art campaign she did on the coronavirus in Sudan. She has also been a honorary cultural Ambassador to Qatar Museums since 2018. In addition to spray painting on the walls of Sudan and Qatar, Assil's artwork has also been exhibited in Bahrain, Germany, Bangladesh, and the USA. Her work has also been published in books, including Artisans of the Middle East and “Dreesha”.Vorlage:Citation needed

Exhibitions

• LAS Charity Fashion Show with pop art exhibition by Assil Diab - Grand Regal Hotel (2013)
• Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
• Iwalewahaus Gallery in Bayreuth, Germany (2017)
• Red Bull's Artspace in Bahrain, called ‘Malja’ (2015 and 2016)Vorlage:Citation needed
• Karmakol Festival in Sudan (2017)

See also

• Visual arts of Sudan

Further reading

• Pascal Zoghbi, Stone, Joy Hawley: Arabic graffiti = Ghirāfītī ʻArabīyah. From Here to Fame, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-937946-45-0 (worldcat.org). 

External links

• Assil Diab - graphic artist (YouTube video in Arabic, with English subtitles)
• "Meet The People Of Qatar" episode 09 - Assil Diab (YouTube video in English)
• How Art Helped Propel Sudan’s Revolution magazine article about artists active in the Sudanese Revolution

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