Biography Lahib Jaddo

2011

Jaddo is a Middle Eastern woman born in 1955 in Bagdad. She spent her childhood in Iraq. Her parents were the first generation liberals in a country struggling to find its voice. The parents found themselves in 1965 and their five children in exile because of politics. Her formative years were in Beirut, Lebanon, a country beautiful, open and on the ground of the Middle East.

At the age of 22 she moved to the United States and continued her education in Architecture and Art.

She settled in Texas to raise her children and become an artist. She currently is an associate professor at the college of Architecture at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Her work remains to be about the dilemma of being woman on the fence between the Wild West and the conservative Middle East.