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Chaïbia Talal
“A message of hope to all women”
Some people experience too much, too young. Chaïbia Talal was only 13, living in the small village of Chtouka near El Jadida, Morocco, when she was forcibly married to a seventy year old man.
A year later she became a mother, and the year after that her decrepit husband died and left her a widow at 15 years old.
Chaibia adraoui biography of mahatma gandhi
For the next ten years she worked as a maid to support her son, El Houcine, and was called mahboula—the crazy girl, for her dreamy nature.
It was her dreams that saved her. At age 25, strangers came to Chaïbia in a dream and offered her pens and leaves to draw on.
Inspired, she took up painting. Unschooled in the arts, her paintings were raw, colorful, and deeply expressive.
Chaibia adraoui biography of mahatma
At first, her work was poorly received in Morocco, and she was derided as a naïve artist. In , after more than a decade of painting, her career took wings. She was featured in an exhibition at the Goethe Institute, in Casablanca, where her work was no