Series II: Press Clippings

This subseries includes news clippings from various newspapers and magazines published in the 1950s, including Radiodiffusion Syrienne, al Jundi magazine, al Kifah, Sawt Syria, Il Messaggero, and others.

This subseries includes news clippings from various newspapers and magazines published in the 1960s, including al-Nahar, al-Thawra, al-Jundi, L'Orient Litteraire, La Syrie d'aujourd'hui, and others. The clippings include press coverage about Mahmoud Hammad, the art exhibitions he participated in, and some press interviews with Mahmoud Hammad. Also, some clippings discuss the work of other artists, including Nasir Shoura, Elias Zayat, Fateh al-Moudarres, and Louay Kayali, among many others. One of the main highlights in this series is the more than 14 newspaper clippings detailing a major 1966 exhibition of Syrian painting at the Sursock Museum in Beirut, featuring debates about abstract painting.

This subseries includes news clippings from various newspapers and magazines published in the 1970s, including al-Thawra, al-Baʻath, and al-Safir. Highlights include features on Hammad published in the Syrian newspaper al-Thawra cultural supplement; growing coverage of al-Hurufiyya (or the use of Arabic letters in modern art) as an important art world development.

This subseries includes clippings from Syrian newspapers that cover annual art exhibitions and other major events in cultural life; features on Hammad that discuss his work; "Artists in Damascus," an illustrated article in Saudi Aramco World (1981).

This subseries includes tributes to the artist published in Syrian and Arab newspapers and journals.