Karim Salim Edouard Al-Dahdah - I was born in 1982 in Ras-Beirut, son of Sélim El-Dahdah and Wissal Yazigi. The Al-Dahdah are a maronite feudal family from the Ftouh- Kesrouan region and their roots go back to Akoura, in the district of Jbeil. My father grew up in Gemmayzé, rue Gouraud, son of Edouard and Rose Maroun and grandson of Sélim and Sophie El-Khazen, sister of cheikh Youssef El-Khazen from Ajaltoun. The Yazigi are also a feudal family from Marmarita, a greek-orthodox town in the Syrian mountainous region known as Wadi-el-Nassara. My mother is the daughter of Sélim Yazigi and Haďfa El-Cheikh. She grew up in Homs and was educated in Damascus and London. In 1984, amid the bloody events in Lebanon, my family moved to Brazilia (Hazmieh), a quiet eastern neighborhood of Beirut where I grew up. I went to school at the Collčge Notre-Dame de Jamhour and received the Prix d'Honneur de Philosophie in 1999. In 2004, I graduated with an MA in Advertising from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA) in Beirut. In the fall of the same year, I moved to the USA to pursue a master's degree in Illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, and graduated in May 2005. I was then offered an Assistant Art Director position at Publications International Ltd., a big book publishing company in Chicago, Illinois.
Assistant Art Director, Publications International, Ltd.
5600 North Sheridan Road - Chicago, IL, USA
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Record Last Updated on April 27th, 2008
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