The death of the Saudi artist Jaafar Al-Gharib

The Saudi artist, Jaafar Al-Gharib, died today, Wednesday, at the age of 67, after a struggle with illness that lasted for several months, according to local news accounts.

A number of Saudi artists and intellectuals mourned the late artist, through the hashtag #Jaafar_Al-Gharib on the social networking site "Twitter".

And the artist Abdullah Al-Sadhan wrote, in his tweet on his account on “Twitter”: “We belong to God and to Him we shall return. May God have mercy on him and forgive him and dwell in the highest paradise, Lord of the worlds.”

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