Nour Ismail is the ten year old daughter of artist and Calligrapher Ghassan Ismail. She was born in 2008 in Deir ez-Zor, Syria. She accompanied her father, mother and brother when they left their hometown at the outset of the Syrian war in 2011. She is currently in elementary school in Lebanon. When not painting you can find Nour playing with her brother or knitting.