Alf Mabrouk for Lina !
And best of luck for our 6 athletes in the upcoming days !

BEIRUT: A painting by Lebanese artist Lina Kilikian won the gold medal at an international exhibition of art in China preceding and accompanying the 2008 Olympic Games opening on Friday in Beijing. For the exhibit entitled Colors and the Olympics, in which hundreds of sculptures and paintings by about 700 artists from 81 countries around the world were competing, Kilikian submitted three works, one of which won.

Kilikian will travel to the Chinese capital on Saturday to receive the gold medal and an Olympic torch as an award for her winning painting called “The Terrestrial Globe During the 21st Century.”

I was holding a blank paper and some painting pens, so I drew what I was feeling at that moment. I drew the way wars can change the landmarks of the terrestrial globe and hurt human beings along with the pollution and the catastrophes of the nature,” she told The Daily Star.

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15 Comments. Add your own...

  • 1. lebanonhsh | August 9th, 2008 at 9:54 am

    always a proud moment

  • 2. paul | August 9th, 2008 at 10:34 am

    this painting can be a nie tatoo :-)

  • 3. elie | August 9th, 2008 at 12:43 pm

    yeah we love life in all of its colors ;)

  • 4. Mickel | August 9th, 2008 at 9:34 pm

    علم “القوات اللبنانية” يرتفع على اعلى قمة في افريقيا

    http://www.lebanese-forces.com/ar/artde.asp?newsid=16301

  • 5. Mountain | August 9th, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    hi delta …

  • 6. Mickel | August 10th, 2008 at 7:35 am

    Does anyone think they have the balls to do it?

    ذكت صحيفة “النهار” ان هناك موجة داخل نواب 14 آذار تدعو للتصويت بورقة بيضاء او الامتناع عن التصويت احتجاجا على سلوك المعارضة بعد اتفاق الدوحة والتي “نالت الثلث المعطل في الحكومة وقانون الانتخاب لعام 1960 وادراجها طرفا مستقلا في معادلة ثلاثية تتضمن حق الشعب والجيش والمقاومة في التحرير، لكنها كابرت ورفضت عبارة “في كنف الدولة” لتحديد اطار المقاومة”.

  • 7. Rima | August 10th, 2008 at 8:51 am

    yeah solange…

  • 8. paul | August 10th, 2008 at 9:39 am

    hahahaa :-) Rima, heide 2awiyye.

  • 9. Rodge | August 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am

    In fact Solange and Elia Atallah will not vote for trust. It is a very good and promising move, but unfortunately not enough.

  • 10. Rodge | August 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am

    Mabrouk for Lebanon the Gold Medal, it will be the last one, since I don’t think any of our athletes will be able to win any medal.

  • 11. Drako | August 10th, 2008 at 5:17 pm

    Does anyone else read “Jesus” in the painting ??

  • 12. Mountain | August 10th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

    DELTA , sure u added me ???

  • 13. Rima | August 11th, 2008 at 3:34 am

    Yes i can read jesus in the painting…amazing

  • 14. nora | August 11th, 2008 at 11:31 pm

    bidal fi chi bifarri7 l 2aleb :)! congrats!!! such a great yet wonderful painting…

  • 15. linda dalal | August 20th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    not only does it say “jesus” it also says “christ”!!! on the second line!!!

    if only the chinese knew!!!



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