Cesar Nammour, art historian and publisher, has followed the plastic arts in Lebanon closely since 1959. He received his BBA at the American University of Beirut
in 1961 and his MBA in 1964 at the American University in Washington, DC. For five years he was associated with the Contact Art Gallery in Beirut, which he cofounded in 1972. He cofounded Gallery Les Cimaises in Zouk-Mosbeh in 1987, and Art et Culture in Zouk-Mosbeh in 1993. A frequent lecturer on Lebanese sculpture and painting, he has published more than one hundred articles in Lebanese newspapers and twenty-two books on art. He cofounded the Contemporary Art Society in 1997 and the Lebanese Association of Art Critics in 1998. In his hometown, Rabieh, he organized many cultural activities in the town club when he headed the town’s administration for more than twelve years. He has also taught art appreciation and the history of art in many institutions in Lebanon. He co-founded with Gabriela Schaub RectoVerso Library in 2009, Festival of Libanese Art Book in 2010, which became BeirutArt Book Fair in 2011, Monot Street Book Market in 2011 and RectoVerso Museum in 2012.
