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Mounirah Mosley
A Saudi Artist, born in the holy city of Mecca, Mosley graduated from the Cairo Institute of Fine Arts in 1974. She worked as an art teacher and supervisor at the Jeddah-based Dar al-Hanan school, and then traveled to the US, where she obtained her Masters degree in Art & Design in 1979, from Portland State University’s School of Fine and Performing Arts in Oregon. She served two years as the director of ‘Thatal Khimar’ (The Veiled One), a women’s issues rubric at the Saudi-based AlYamama newspaper. Mosley set up the first private art gallery in Jeddah in 1972, and continued to participate in various exhibitions until opening her own exhibition in October 2001 in Manama, Bahrain. In 1994, she was selected by the United Nations Development Organization to contribute to arts and media programs in the Arabian Gulf. She has received a number of awards from professional bodies and institutions in the Arab world, and has written a number of articles, published in local and Arab newspapers. Her most prominent article was about children and art and their relationship to society.