ITAB HREIB TV

I knew from my mother and father that my name came from their fondness of the Fayrouz’ song “Stand, o Asmar”. We will start with your name Etab, what’s the story of your name? Her work appears in many museums and private collections. She held dozens of exhibitions inside and outside Syria. She received a number of awards and certificates of appreciation, including the gold medal of the Mahrous Festival in Tunis in 1993 and Gold from The Chinese Ministry of Culture in 1993. Today, more than twenty years later, I am interviewing Etab as an exiled journalist in an interview with an exiled artist.īorn in the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor in 1954, Etab Hreib graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Damascus in 1978. I knew then that the heart was free and had wings and that belonging to nowhere was an advantage. My mother asked me and my brothers to remain silent and raise the volume level of television and said: It is Etab Hreib, the artist the Euphratean artist by blood with a Damascene heart. Our family, like any family from Deir Ezzor, rejoices greatly when the face of somebody from our hometown appears on the screen and pursues the conversation with passion.

ITAB HREIB TV

Etab stood over her name, while the TV presenter spoke of her blue paintings that covered the walls of her living room. It was written in thick blue letters at the bottom of the screen in the middle. On Syrian television in the 1990s, it was the first time I read the name of Etab Hreib.

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