Tamam Al-Akhal

Tamam Al-Akhal (born 1935) is a Palestinian artist and educator living in Jordan.

Early life and education Al-Akhal was born on March 16, 1935 in Jaffa, the daughter of Aref Al Akhal. In 1948, she came to live with her family in a refugee camp in Lebanon following the Nakba.

She studied at the Fine Arts College in Cairo.

Career and Life Al-Akhal has exhibited in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem, Jordan, the United States, Kuwait, England, China, Morocco, Berlin, Paris, Rome, and Vienna. She gave a series of lectures at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in 2009.

While an art student, al-Akhal was included in a group exhibit titled The Palestinian Refugee. Also included in the exhibit was Nuhad Sabasi and Ismail Shammout. From 1957 to 1960, she taught art at the Makassed Girls College in Beirut.

Her art has appeared on more than a dozen covers of Palestinian Affairs, a magazine published by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). She was also head of the PLO's Arts and Heritage section. With her husband, she painted a series of large murals known as "Palestine: The Exodus and the Odyssey."

Exhibitions From 1954 to 2003, in partnership with Ismail Shammout, she held exhibitions of their work in Cairo:

Cairo 1954, sponsored and inaugurated by the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Beirut and Sidon, Lebanon, and Gaza, Ramallah, Nablus and Jerusalem, Palestine, 1957 Jerusalem, Nablus and Amman 1964 One hundred and twenty-one exhibitions in twelve U.S. states in four and a half months in New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Champaign, and Detroit Houston, Austin, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in 1964. Tripoli (Libya), Cairo, and Damascus 1965. Kuwait and Beirut 1966 London and Birmingham, England, 1967. Cairo and Alexandria 1968. Beirut 1969 and 1970. Belgrade and in Sofia, 1971. Beijing (China) 1972 Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco 1973 Vienna (Austria), Paris and Rome in 1976. Berlin 1977 and the German National Museum in Berlin, 1977 Beirut, 1982 Kuwait, 1984 Abu Dhabi, 1986 Manama, Kuala Lumpur and Japan, 1987 Kuwait, 1989 Amman, 1994 Amman, Ramallah, Nablus, Nazareth and Beirut, 1996 “The Biography and Career Exhibition” in Amman, 2000 Biography Exhibition in Ankara and Istanbul, 2001 "Biography and Career Exhibition" in Doha, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Dubai, Cairo, Damascus, and Aleppo, 2002 Biography and Career Exhibition in Beirut, 2003