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Chant Avedissian was born and raised in Cairo. He attended art school in Montreal, Canada from 1970 to 1973. After a year hiatus in Cairo he left again for Paris in 1975 to continue his studies at the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (The School of Decorative Arts). Intending to study painting he turned to silk screening instead. He returned to Cairo at the age of 30 and began working first for the architect Abdallah Kouatly and then Hassan Fathy. In 1991, at the age of 40, he started a series of stencils. Chant Avedissian: Cairo Stencilswas published by SAQl Books in 2006. He is currently preparing an exhibition in Cairo.