LAWHA

Today, we mourn the loss of Rima Amyuni, a hugely significant artist and a wonderful person. Rima enjoyed a long and deeply productive career full of remarkable highlights.

Amyuni left her substantive academic learning behind to paint her world with love. A simple and vibrant place full of thick and layered parts making a whole that speaks directly to the feeling of place, life, moment. For Amyuni, the world held a clarity that could appear naive, unreal, but was perhaps conversely, deeply real, deeply felt and understood.

Rima Amyuni will be deeply missed, but her work and vision remain alive.🤍

Tomorrow, Thursday 8 January, 5-7pm at the OIB Orient-Institut Beirut. All are welcome!

Defying the Violence Launch Event in Beirut Orient-Institut Beirut, Thursday, 8 January 2026, 5-7pm The Orient-Institut Beirut invites you to the launch of Manazir Journal 7: Defying the Violence – Lebanon’s Visual Arts in the 1980s, edited by Nadia von Maltzahn (OIB/LAWHA). The 1980s in Lebanon were dominated by...