Infobox Artist
name = Ibrahim Ghannam
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birthname = Ibrahim Hassan Kheite
birthdate = 1930
location = Haifa, Palestine
deathdate = 1984
deathplace = Beirut, Lebanon
nationality = Palestinian
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movement = Plastic art
works = Harvest, Dabke, Tohour, Al-´Id, Zaffat Annabi Saleh, Bahat Eddar
Ibrahim Hassan Kheite (1930-1984), better known by the artistic name, Ibrahim Ghannam, was an artist considered to be one of the founders of the Palestinian plastic art movement. His paintings focused on describing the daily life of the Palestinian people in his country before the Nakba. He painted scenes of village life in a naïve style using bright colours.[Gannit Ankori, "Palestinian Art", Reaktion Books, 2006, p54. ISBN 1861892594] ]Ghannam contracted Gout as a child and was confined to a wheelchair throughout his life.[ His reputation as a professional illustrator emerged from "tal el za3tar" camp near the Lebanese capital Beirut.]He was a founding member of the General Union of Palestinian artists foundation, and the General Federation of Arab Artists foundation.
During the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, the Israeli army seized some of his paintings from one of the exhibits of Beirut. Other paintings of his were also lost in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion.
He is the subject of Adnan Mdanat's 1977 documentary film "Palestinian Visions". [Nurith Gertz, George Khleifi, "Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory", Edinburgh University Press, 2008, p71. ISBN 0748634088]
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