Tahia Mohammed Halim

Plaats: Dongola

Geboren: 1919

Dood: 2003

Biografie:

Tahia Mohammed Halim, known as Tahia Halim, was an Egyptian painter born in Dongola, Sudan in 1919. She was raised in the Royal Palace of Cairo, where her father worked as the chamberlain of King Fouad I of Egypt. Halim studied art under important drawing teachers, including the Lebanese painter Affa Al-Nammoury. She is celebrated for her poetic and folkloric images of Egypt, frequently depicting boats on the Nile, Nubian women, and domestic life. Halim died in 2003.