صفحات أدبية وأبعاد تشكيلية للفنان الليبي – فتحي العريبي
Fathi El-Areibi : Libyan artist & writer
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Birth date : Sunday Morning of March 15. 1942 Birth place : Al Saabri (suburb of Benghazi) Telephone number : 218-61-2230185 P.O. Box 486 : Benghazi – Libya Email : [email protected] |
Waiting for the rider – 1995 Biography |
From 1964 to 1968 Mr. El Areibi worked as a photojournalist for Al Haqeeqa newspaper in Benghazi and for Broadcast and Libya Al Hadeetha in Tripoli.Then shifted his career to become a documentary and news cinematographer for the Photo Magazine in Benghazi.
When the Libyan television began it’s broadcast in 1968, Mr. El Areibi became the director of the cinema department. In June of 1969 Mr. El Areibi was sent to study cinematography at the prestigious ARRI a Germany company who’s famous for making Arriflex the best film cameras in the world. During his long career Mr. El Areibi participated in more than 50 Light & Photography shows and exhibits inside Libya and in Rome, Athens, Valetta, Paris, London, Damascus, Baghdad, Alexandria, and Cairo. His first exhibits were at Al Najma Football (soccer) club. Mr. El Areibi wrote many articles and published a documented photos for major Libyan, Egyptian, and Lebanese publications such as: Al Bait, Al Maraia, & No magazines, also in newspapers such as: Al Fatah, Al Zahaf Al Akhdar, Benghazi News, The Conference, Al Majal, Akhbar Al Adab (Egypt), The Art of Photography (Beirut-Lebanon). In 1985 Mr. El Areibi thought radio and television production at University of Gar Younis in Benghazi and in 1997 thought photography at the Art High school in Benghazi.. |
As a writer & director Mr. El Areibi wrote and directed the following short subject films: (1)- Just Dreams – 1971 (2)- Clock’s ticks – 1972 (3)- The Children are Children – 1972 (4)- The Comb & the Honey – 1973 (5)- Return to Beisaan – 1974 (6)- The Structure – 1975 (7)- Mirror’s dimensions – Educational 1987 |
The Lady of Al Jabal Al Akhdar – 1995 |
Penetrating the blockade – 1995 |
Radio educational programs directed & produced by Mr. El Areibi (1)- Recording tape (1981-1985) – 30 minutes weekly program, introduced his daughter Amal & others (150 episodes) won best photographed program of 1986(2)- Sketches with dimensions (for Benghazi local radio) 1997 – 15 minutes daily (65 episodes) – Produced by Nabil El Areibi |
Unions and Guilds: (1)- Libyan writers Union – Benghazi (2)- Libyan Artists Union – Benghazi (3)- Photographers & painters Union – Benghazi (4)- Journalists Union – Benghazi (5)- Camera Club – London (6)- Maltese Photographers Group – Valetta (7)- Art of Photography Club – Damascus (8)- Iraqi Photographers Group – Baghdad (9) (- Alexandria Camera Club – Alexandria 10)- Egyptian Photographers Club – Cairo |
Cinematography & photography books written by Mr. El Areibi:
(1)- The Single Audience (Cinema + 95 photos) 1975 – Jeel Wa Resala magazine |
Eyes and Lips 1990 |
Poems are written in various ways, the poet and the musician write with their fingers, birds with their singing , a beautiful woman with her eyes and lips , the lover writes without writing , but you Fathi you use all these methods combine to give the picture it’s three dimensions: poetry, color and sound.Nezar Qabbani Beirut : 26.08.1975
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