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    Lazaar is an art critic, art curator, and Sotheby's international contemporary art specialist. An activist promoter of Middle Eastern art, she founded Jeddah Art Week and co-founded Ibraaz. Personal life. Lazaar was married to Saudi Arabian businessman Hassan Jameel in 2012 and divorced in 2017.

  2. Jul 2, 2018 · Lina Lazaar is a leading figure in the Arab art scene, having curated landmark exhibitions such as The Future of a Promise and The Absence of Paths. She also founded Ibraaz, Jeddah Art Week and JAOU, platforms for visual culture in the MENA region.

  3. Jun 24, 2019 · Lina Lazaar is a Tunisian art critic and philanthropist who married Hassan Jameel, a Saudi businessman, in 2012. They divorced in 2017 and he is now dating Rihanna.

  4. President. Specialised in contemporary art, Lina Lazaar holds an MA in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Throughout her career at Sotheby’s she supported the emergence of contemporary Arab art on the international scene after which she worked as a curator and joined KLF as its President.

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    Lazaar has an MA degree in Statistics from the London School of Economics and an MA in Art History from Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Throughout her career in London, where she curated the first auction of Arab and Iranian Contemporary art with Sotheby’s in 2007, she supported the emergence of contemporary Arab art on the international scene. In 2017...

    Tunisian philanthropist and international financier Kamel Lazaar created the Kamel Lazaar Foundationin 2005. The foundation is headquartered in Geneva and has offices in London and Tunis. According to its website, “KLF produces and supports artistic and cultural projects in the MENA region. Although it is mainly specialized in culture and contempor...

    Jeddah Art Weekwas a ground-breaking week of arts events and cultural activities in Saudi Arabia, having taken place between February 26 and February 27th, 2013 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. According to its Facebook page, “JAW comes at a time when the world is increasingly looking toward the Middle East for emerging creativity. In bringing together loc...

    Lina launched Jaou Tunisin 2013 by gathering artists, collectors, gallery owners, academics, art specialists, and more, around exhibitions, conferences, and seminars on culture and contemporary art. According to its Facebook page, Jaou Tunis is a participatory cultural event, free and open to all audiences. The purpose of the event is to promote th...

    “It appears that we are all guilty of constantly beating the drum of a ‘half-empty glass’ when considering our current state,” Lazaar tells Harper’s Bazaar Arabia. “But if one scratches beneath the surface, some of the largest buyers of art are from the MENA region, some of the most ambitious art infrastructure projects are from the MENA region, an...

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  6. Not even 30, Sotheby’s art specialist Lina Lazaar Jameel has already made a name for herself by pushing contemporary Arab art to the fore of the global art scene.

  7. Jun 26, 2021 · Lina Lazaar, founder of Jaou Tunis, has initiated a number of quietly, but genuinely subversive projects. In 2012, when married to her first husband, Hassan Jameel of the billionaire Saudi family, she instituted the first Jeddah Art Week – which, called Art JAW, is a progenitor for Art Jaou.

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