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After the Nakba, Tamam Al-Akhal and her family were displaced from the city of Jaffa in Palestine; they left for Beirut in 1948. Tamam grew up, and art became her language; denoting the way she speaks to the world of her memories and dreams. Years later, Al-Maqasid College in Beirut granted her a scholarship to study art at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1953. She obtained a Fine Arts diploma and a teaching license in art from the Higher Institute for Women Art Teachers in Cairo in 1957. Tamam Al-Akhal married the artist Ismail Shammout and participated with him in all the exhibitions of their work held across most Arab countries and in many countries around the world. Her works are held in a number of Arab and international museums. Tamam continues to produce her art from her place of residence in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
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