Dr. Mohamed Ismail was born in 1936 in Zagazig in Egypt. He graduated and obtained his Masters in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. He received his Ph.D. in the History of Fine Arts. He held numerous private and collective exhibitions from 1958 – 1969. Dr. Ismail started his globe trotting in 1969. He started with Europe visiting Greece, Spain and France going to North Africa and then to Turkey in the Near East. He moved on to Beirut, Kuwait, Iran and India before breaking camp to his favorite continent: the Far East. In Tokyo he knew love and considered it home. He has many acquisitions in several countries and the most important is in the Museum of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He obtained many International and Arab prizes