Acclaimed Alumna Artist Shares Stories of Family and Migration

Arts & Humanities Alumna artist Helen Zughaib stands with her artwork being exhibited at the Syracuse University Art Museum. (Photo by Marilyn Hesler) Arts & Humanities Acclaimed Alumna Artist Shares Stories of Family and Migration Helen Zughaib ’81 wants her art to create empathy and a shared sense of humanity. Jay Cox Nov. 13, 2026 Estimated Reading Time: Share × Video Player Sitting in the Syracuse University Art Museum, internationally renowned artist Helen Zughaib ’81 reflects on her work featured in “Patterns of Migration,” the latest rendition of the museum’s Art Wall Project. She shares stories of her family and how they fled Lebanon when civil war broke out in 1975. She talks about visiting refugee camps and heartbreaking conversations she’s had with people displaced by war. And she talks about her art, its influences and the impact she hopes it has. “The majority of my work is trying to have a connection or put something in a different light,” she says.

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