Saikali graduated from the Académie ![[Lever de Lune (moonrise).jpg]] Saikali graduated from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in 1956 and then studied at L'Académie de la Grande Chaumière and L'École des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. Before moving to Beirut her interest in abstraction grew from a love of geography and geology, ancient civilisations and archaeology, which inform her mark-making and fluid gestures. She permanently moved to France in 1979 during the civil war in Lebanon. Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah #Art