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Qatar resident wins best Arab artist prize
02 Jan 2021 - 9:22
Artist Muntaha Jameel Slat posing with her winning artwork.
The Peninsula
Doha: Artist Muntaha Jameel Slat, a resident of Qatar, secured first place at the London International Art Forum, and won the International Arab Group Prize and the title of the best Arab artist in the world for the year 2020, in the category of realist art.
The closing ceremony of the Best Arab Creators Competition was held at the amphitheater of the British Royal Commission for Medicine in the famous Mayfair district in central London.
The artist expressed her happiness with the victory of her realist artwork, titled ‘Min Hena Marra Al Hanin’ (From here over nostalgia), which features one of the old Aleppo’s neighborhoods.