Assil Diab
{{Short description|Contemporary Sudanese visual artist}}
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Assil Diab ({{Langx|ar|أسيل دياب}}) (1988{{cite web |last1=Memarian |first1=Omid |author-link=Omid Memarian |title="It Was Easy for Them To Shoot You"; Nevertheless, Assil Diab Persisted |url=https://dawnmena.org/it-was-easy-for-them-to-shoot-you-nevertheless-assil-diab-persisted/ |website=DAWN |date=25 January 2021}}) is a Sudanese visual artist, graphic designer and graffiti artist, based in United States.
Biography
= Early life and education =
Assil Diab was born in Romania and moved with her parents to Qatar as a child. She attended the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar and in Richmond, Virginia, USA, and graduated in 2011 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design.{{Cite web |date=2018-03-08 |title=20 Young Sudanese Women You Should Know About |url=https://oladiab.com/2018/03/08/21-young-sudanese-women-you-should-know-about/ |access-date=2020-02-19 |website=Ola Diab |language=en}} She also holds a diploma in Digital Marketing and Advanced Social Media Marketing.{{Cite web |last=VCUQatar |title=Assil Diab |url=https://www.qatar.vcu.edu/people/assil-diab |access-date=2020-02-19 |website=www.qatar.vcu.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Muzawazi |first=Rumbie |date=2017-09-11 |title=Assil Diab: Being an Arab Muslim female painting the streets is not always applauded |url=https://sheleadsafrica.org/assil-diab/ |access-date=2020-02-19 |website=She Leads Africa |language=en-US}}
= Career =
Since her graduation she has worked as a freelance graphic designer and graffiti artist, designing logos and branding for companies as well as commissioned to paint the walls of restaurants, cafes, shops and businesses.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}
Diab works as a freelance graphic designer and graffiti artist. She has been called the first female graffiti artist in Qatar and in Sudan. Before she moved into freelancing as a graffiti artist, she worked at Doha Film Institute (DFI) and for Al Jazeera Children's Channel.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
In 2019, she went back to Sudan, where she undertook an artistic project to honour Sudan's protesting citizens, who lost their lives during the Sudanese revolution. For this project, she created murals of the victims on walls of their respective family homes.{{Cite web |date=22 July 2019 |title=The graffiti artist honouring Sudan's protest victims |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07hhp3z |access-date=2020-02-19 |website=Newsday |publisher=BBC World Service |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Sudan Graffiti Artist Honors Anti-Government Protest Victims |url=https://www.voanews.com/africa/sudan-graffiti-artist-honors-anti-government-protest-victims |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912151753/https://www.voanews.com/africa/sudan-graffiti-artist-honors-anti-government-protest-victims |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 12, 2019 |access-date=2020-02-19 |website=Voice of America |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sudan's Artists of the Revolution {{!}} The Mantle |url=https://www.themantle.com/arts-and-culture/sudans-artists-revolution-0 |access-date=2020-02-19 |website=www.themantle.com}}
In 2020, she won a dissemination award from UNESCO and i4policy for a self-initiated street art campaign she did on the coronavirus in Sudan. She has also been a honorary cultural Ambassador to Qatar Museums since 2018. In addition to spray painting on the walls of Sudan and Qatar, Assil's artwork has also been exhibited in Bahrain, Germany, Bangladesh, and the USA. Her work has also been published in books, including Artisans of the Middle East and “Dreesha”.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}}
Exhibitions
- LAS Charity Fashion Show with pop art exhibition by Assil Diab - Grand Regal Hotel (2013)
- Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar
- Iwalewahaus Gallery in Bayreuth, Germany (2017)
- Red Bull's Artspace in Bahrain, called ‘Malja’ (2015 and 2016){{citation needed|date=October 2020}}
- Karmakol Festival in Sudan (2017)
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{Cite book|last1=Zoghbi|first1=Pascal|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/818463305|title=Arabic graffiti = Ghirāfītī ʻArabīyah|last2=Stone|last3=Hawley|first3=Joy|date=2013|publisher=From Here to Fame|isbn=978-3-937946-45-0|location=Berlin|oclc=818463305}}
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j-Gqc_ZFP8 Assil Diab - graphic artist (YouTube video in Arabic, with English subtitles)]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZavD5GU-fa4 "Meet The People Of Qatar" episode 09 - Assil Diab (YouTube video in English)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20201113073556/https://www.usip.org/blog/2020/11/how-art-helped-propel-sudans-revolution How Art Helped Propel Sudan’s Revolution] magazine article about artists active in the Sudanese Revolution
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Category:Virginia Commonwealth University alumni
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century women artists
Category:Women graffiti artists
Category:Sudanese graphic designers