Famous People with Name Wafaa

Wafaa Lamrani            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Wafaa Lamrani: is a Moroccan poet. She was featured with two poems, The Wail of Heights and I am Consecrated to the Coming One in The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology , and she was one of the five women poets featured in La carte poétique du Maroc

Wafaa Bilal            Origin/Culture/Country: Arabic

Wafaa Bilal: an Iraqi American artist a former professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently an assistant professor at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He is best known for his work Domestic Tension, where he lived in a gallery for a month and was shot by paintballs interactively by internet users watching from a webcam.Bilal's family is from Najaf, Iraq. He dreamed of becoming an artist but was prohibited from studying art in a university in Iraq, because of the alleged disloyalty of a member of his family; he studied geography instead. He continued to work on art and was arrested as a dissident for his art critical of Saddam Hussein.[1] He refused to volunteer to participate in the invasion of Kuwait, and began organizing opposition groups. He fled Iraq in 1991 and lived in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia for two years, teaching art to children.[2]