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- Country of residence: United Kingdom
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Zena El Khalil was born in london, england in 1976. she grew up in nigeria where she read a lot, participated in karate competitions and listened to a lot of iron maiden. her favorite color back then was purple. it still is. she moved to england to attend high school. it was there that she got seriously involved with art and the two big no no's "religion and politics." later, she moved to lebanon and attended the american university of beirut. it was the same university that her father attended. it was beirut that turned zena into a real woman. but after a while, zena's mind began to wander and she began to think about what artists in the west were thinking about. so she moved to new york and completed her masters in fine arts at the school of visual arts in 2002. she presently lives in nyc with chloe, the ghost of her dead cat. she still likes to read a lot. she has a hard time understanding why america doesn't use the metric system. she is a taurus. her favorite artist in the whole wide world is george maciunas. she one day hopes to return to lebanon where she can teach art, live in the mountains and go to the beach all in the same day.
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