CV    SIMON SFEIR

Address                       :  Naccache – Red Zone - Bld 71 & KLEAAT-KESROUAN Telephone                    : 03/604608 ( or my brother 03634640 )

Date of Birth               : 12/05/1970

Marital Status              : Single

Languages                   : Arabic, French and English

High School studies  :  CMC College - Jdeidet El Metn                    1975 - 1989

University studies      :  Diploma in Interior Design                            1990 - 1995

          at the National Lebanese Institute of Fine Arts.         Promotion      1994 - 1995

A - Execution of decoration projects

·      Program  سهار  سهار بعد      1998                                                                      Orbit TV

·      Special New Year              2000                                                                Télé Lumière

·      Special Christmas 1998   With Mme Magida Roumi                                   Télé Lumière

·      Special New year               1999                                                                  Télé Lumière

·      Feyrouz toughanni               2005                                                                 Télé Lumière

·      Habitations & offices

·      Garden of Mr.Ragheb Alameh at Dahr El Sawan –Metn – Lebanon 1997

·      Villa of Mss. & Dr. Omar Halablab in Bar Elias – Bekaa ( actually 2006 -2007 )

B - Collective Painting Exhibitions

·      1991          Groupe de peintres ( Omar Al Mokhtar college - Bekaa )

·      1993         Escalier de l’Art - Gemayzeh

·      1993         Ballouneh Garden

·      1993         Groupe de Jeunes Peintres ( le Foyer de l’Artiste )

·      1995         Harvest ( Down Town )

·      1997         L’Art Plastique Libanais ( W.O.A.) Cultural Center – Abou Dhabi

·      1997         Art et Enfance ( World of Art )

·      1998         Jeunes Peintres Libanais ( Dar al Nadwa )

·      1998         Trois Jeunes Peintres ( Noah’s Ark Gallery )

·      1998         Sahet Daïetna ( Beit Mery )

·      1999         Daraj Al Fan - Beyrouth

·      1999         Collective Exhibition - Beirut Down Town

·      1999          JABAL  at  Borj  al Sbaa´- Tripoli

·      2001         Festival of Reyfoun

·      2001          Festival of  Reyfoun

·      2001         L’Art, l’Arbre et le Patrimoine - Beirut 2001 ( Bronte Gallery )

·      2002          Bronte  Gallery - Beirut Down Townساحة  النجمة

·      2002          Symposium of Jounieh.

·      2002          Gemayzé - Salle Escalier De L’Art.          

·      2002          JABAL  at  Kadri Hotel - Zahlé

·      2003          Borj Al Sbaa - Tripoli برج السباع 

·      2003          Symposium of Jounieh

·      2003          Noah’s Ark Gallery

·      2003          Patriarche SFEIR Cultural Center -Reyfoun

C - Individual Exhibition

·      1996         Hommage à la nature      at Garden Café Escape Club Beirut ( 33 peintures )

·      1998         Hommage à Elias Abou Chabké at his house in Zouk Mikael ( 77 paintings )

Inauguration by Wadih Al Safi & Speech by Maurice Awad

·      1999         Ciel à l’Honneur                                    at News’Café-Hamra ( 33 paintings )

·      2001         Ciel, arbres, montagnes                             at Thema Gallery  Sodeco - Beirut

·      2003          Nature – Dream Dialogue   at Saint Joseph School-Aintoura  ( 50 paintings )

D - Personal Activities & Hobbies

  Writer in several reputable local newspapers( Nahar, Diar, Dabbour ) in which lots of my articles & interviews with local artists & politicians have been published: Majida El Roumy ( twice ), Said Akl, Wadih El Safi ( 5times ), Mansour Rahbani, Melhem Barakat ( twice ), Toufic El Bacha, Rafic Ali Ahmad, Elias Rahbani, Raymond Gébara, Zaki Nassif ( twice ), Mounir Keserwani, Antoine Kerbaj, Melhem Zein, Roueida Atieh, Diana Karazon, Dominique Hourani, Charbel Khalil ( 2 times ), Mehsen Dalloul ( 3 times ), Elie Skaff ( twice ), Hani Fahs, Monah Solh, Abbas Hachem ( twice ), Salim Hoss ( twice ), Nasri Lahoud, Pierre Helou, Raïf Melki, Abdallah Farhat, Farid Haikal Khazen, Najah Wakim ( twice ), Fares Boueiz, Fouad Makhzoumi, Raya Daouk ( twice ), Georges Corm, Georges Hawi, Gibran Tueini, Issam Khalifeh, Dori Chamoun, Pierre Gemayel, Ghassan Moukheiber, Wiam Wahab…          

  Poetic essays      Photography amateur        Furniture & Lighting Designer.

  Owe a collection of paintings for the most recognized painters: Habib Srour, Daoud Corm, Cesar Gemayel, Moustapha Farroukh, Saliba Doueihy, Rashid Wehbé, Maroun Tomb, Omar Onsi, Jean Khalifé, Michel Akl, Philipe Mourani, Saadi Sinévi, Michel Akl, Aref  Rayess …

  Invited to several interviews in  newspaper, magazines, radio and TV stations.      

  The Patriarch Sfeir honored Mr. Wadih El Safi upon my personal request in a large          ceremony ( August 22^nd  2001 )  located at the Patriarchate in Diman-North Lebanon.

  Mr Wadih Safi planted a number of lebanese Cedars in many lebanese regions upon my personal request ( 2001 ) …

  Memorial oil painting representing the Pope JEAN-PAUL II ( 70 X 90 cm ) that I dedicated to the  Patriarchate Nasrallah Sfeir in May -1997 .

  Memorial oil  painting representing the Patriarche Sfeir that I dedicated to him for his Cultural & Medical Center – Reyfoun  in Sept – 1999.

      Participation ( with Mr Wadih El Safi ) at the memorial of the famous lebanese poet Michel Trad ( UNESCO 1999 ) through an oil painting representing the poet ( 90 x 90 cm )….

      Writing a book  “ CHARBEL SAINT OF MIRACLES ” in arabic.

       UCIPLIBAN Member ( UNION CATHOLIQUE INTERNATIONAL DE PRESSE )

Participation in " Conference of  lebanese poetry " at NDU december 2008  throug memorial paintings ( AL AKHTAL ASSAGHIR, MICHEL TRAD ) 

E – Television

† “ Imanouka khallassouka ” program on OTV 2008