Saloua raouda choucair biography of rory gilmore

Saloua Raouda Choucair (Arabic: سلوى روضة شقير; June 24, 1916 – January 26, 2017) was a Lebanesepainter and sculptor.^[1][2]

Life and career

Born in 1916 in Ain El Mraisseh, along Beirut's coastal Corniche, Lebanon,^[3] Choucair came from a family of doctors, lawyers, engineers and historians.^[4] Her father, Salim Rawda (1872-1917) was an expatriate in Australia trading herbs and writing manuscripts on their medicinal values.^[3] When he returned to Lebanon in 1910, he met and married Choucair's mother, Zalfa Amin Najjar (1891-1995), a Brummana High School student who was fond of reciting poetry.^[3] They had three children: Anis Rawda (1911-1988) was a businessman and a member of the Beirut municipality; Anissa Rawda Najjar (1913-2016) was a social activist, who was married to the late Fouad Najjar; and the youngest, Choucair, became one of the most prominent figures of Lebanese modernism.^[