Ismail Shammout

Ismail Shammout (Arabic: إسماعيل شموط, romanized: Ismāʻīl Shammūṭ; 1930–2006), was a Palestinian painter and art historian.

On July 12, 1948, he and his family were amongst 25,000 residents of Lydda expelled from their homes by Israeli occupation.

[1] Shammout and Palestinian artist Tamam al Akhal participated in the Palestine Exhibition of 1954 in Cairo.

[2] Shammout became a part of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as the Director of Arts and National Culture in 1965.

In the background there is a skyline of an Arab town with a minaret, while in the middle ground there is a withered tree.

[4] From 1997 to 2000, he and al Akhal painted a collection of 19 large murals called Palestine: The Exodus and the Odyssey.