
Deaf-mute Marwan Abdurahman: Golden Fingers with Sensitive Temperament in the World of Imagination [Archives:2002/02/Last Page]
January 7 2002
Abduh Mokbill Al-Sabri

He studied in al-Iman Rehabilitation Institute for four years. Efforts to educate the young boy were of no avail due to the unavailability of proper educational curricula for such students. He could learn the plastic art but nothing seems to help the young boy except his parents. After that he moved to al-Halali Institute and with a sudden turn, he faced some problems that couldn’t meet his talented mentality, due to unspecialized cadres to teach such handicapped boys. This resulted in many obstacles to such a talented boy.
His father started to provide him with whatever he needed. Plastic artists like Marwan are completely ignored by the bodies concerned. Probably there is no real and quick reaction to this kind of literary form in comparison to other forms of arts such as poetry and short story.

If Yemen seeks to define its talented trailbreakers, it is certain that a young boy particularly at such age will be among the pioneers who seek to create something new and add beauty to the world that is becoming narrower and narrower and is about to collapse.
With his paintbrush he can portray great Yemeni and Arab figures like the President of

Painting seem to be everything in his life. He cannot stand away from hi brush, canvas, easel and colors. Quick executed drawings and paintings of human faces are Marwan’s most interest. It enables him to discover what is beyond the human faces and to explore the truth and life.
A quite place is essential for him to draw. “Being deaf and dumb, he wishes he would be a great artist who is able to convey what he thinks and feels in a different language, said his father.
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