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Salam Omar An Iraqi artist, born in Anah, western Iraq, in 1960. In his early years of awakening, the Iraqi wars and the tragedies related to them have profoundly impacted his persona since the early eighties at the Iranian-Iraqi war, leaving an almost permanent carving in his memory & soul. Salam Omar is a multimedia artist, from printmaking to manual and solar photography to installation. His current project, on immigration and its repercussions, continues to research the position of the killer and the victim that Beirut had previously seen in a recent project (in Counting the Missing, 2014) as an expression of its wars. Diploma in engraving from the Institute of Fine Arts (Baghdad, 1982). BA in Painting from the College of Fine Arts (Baghdad, 2009). Participant in the UNESCO Project, Newspaper Book, Director and Art Supervisor (2002). Salam Omar represented the new Iraqi art generation in group exhibitions and topics inside and outside his country. He has solo exhibitions in Baghdad (since 1987), National Museum of Qatar (Doha, 2000), Beirut (since 2001), Abu Dhabi (2002), Damascus (2003), Kuwait (2004), Bahrain (2008). His works include the Qatar Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of Modern Art in Baghdad (before it was looted). He worked and settled for many years in Beirut, and now he is working and living in Turkey. Honorary member of the Lebanese Artists Association for Painting and Sculpture, after "anxious residencies" in Baghdad, Damascus, and Doha