Samir stayed with there for a short time, and continued his career in Beirut and Damascus, and finally settled in the monastery of the Christian community on the shield.
[2] Salameh began painting early, and received encouragement from the art teacher, a Syrian artist named Adham Ismail.
He entered the faculty of fine arts of the Damascus University, and finished his studies in 1972 and then moved to Beirut, where he joined Palestine Liberation Organization.
[3] In 1975, Samir moved to Paris, France to continue his studies at École des Beaux-Arts, in front of the Louvre Museum, and when he received his residency he discovered on the sheet card that his birthplace was in Israel.
He opposed that and knew that his nationality "was special," but Samir fought a few years later a war over the adoption of Safed / Palestine as a place of birth in his passport and the French had in the previous mission success in achieving them.