Born in Lebanon in 1954, Raouf Rifai lives and works in Beirut. He holds a Ph. D in Urban Planning from the Sorbonne- Paris I, and teaches art at the Lebanese University.
Raouf Rifai is one of the most prominent figurative\abstract painters in Lebanon today. Over the course of more than thirty years, he has produced a vibrant, compelling and expressive body of work in the range of media that is widely collected and internationally exhibited
