الرسوم al Roussoum

This collection is the complete series of 43 portraits of writers, politicians and intellectuals who were active in Beirut during the late 1920s. They are based on the book "al-Roussoum" (الرسوم) written by the Lebanese poet Elias Abou Chabake, first published in 1930, which was a collection of literary portraits of these figures. These paintings accompanied the re-publication of the book by Editions Snoubar Bayrout in December 2015.