Tarrab Joseph, Schoukair Hala, Kahl Helen & Aswad Jack, Saloua Raouda Choucair: Her Life and Art, Dar An-Nahar, 2002
→Morgan Jessica (ed.), Saloua Raouda Choucair, exh. cat., Tate Modern, London (17 April – 17 November 2013), London, Tate Publishing, 2013
Retrospective, Saloua Raouda Choucair, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, 2011
→Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tate Modern, London, 17 April – 17 November 2013
→Saloua Raouda Choucair: The Meaning of One, The Meaning of the Multiple, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, 2015
Lebanese sculptor and painter.
Saloua Raouda Choucair is considered one of the earliest abstractionists in Lebanon. Her practice spanned from the 1940s until the 1990s and included painting and sculpture as well as homeware and jewelry design, illustration, and architectural models, comprising a very diverse body of work that often defies categorization.She was interested in developing a practice that took inspiration from Arab-Islamic history. Though she was not religious, she was inspired by the thought and concepts of Islamic thinkers, particularly the Sufi philosophers, and thought that the Islamic rejection of pictorial art demonstrated that many parts of the Arab world had a natural inclination and sensitivity towards abstraction. She believed that the rejection of form led to the search for the essence of what was meant to be expressed and that this was a fundamental way of understanding Arab intellectual thought.