Biography

Maha Bayrakda received her primary education at Khadija al-Kubra School in Damascus, and obtained her primary school certificate with distinction.

By the age of fifteen, she had read all the masterpieces of Russian literature, and she was also interested in German literature.

She criticized Lebanese drama shows for their monotony and lack of creative diversity.

She held 15 solo exhibitions and 37 collective exhibitions and numerous poetry reading events in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and the Arabian Gulf countries. Only 4 of her exhibitions were held in her native Syria, the last of which was before the beginning of the Syrian civil war in 2011.

Bayrakdar sketched and wrote poetry at an early age; she completed fine arts studies in her native Damascus before obtaining a business administration degree in Munich, Germany.