What is Hannibal Alkhas?
{{Infobox person | name = Hannibal Alkhas | image = Hanibal Alkhas.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date =June 16, 1930 | birth_place = [[Kermanshah]] | death_date = September 13, 2010 (aged 80) | death_place =[[California]] | resting_place = | death_cause = | nationality = Iranian | other_names = | education = [[Fine art]] | alma_mater =[[Firooz Bahram High School]]<br/>[[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]] | party = [[Tudeh Party of Iran]] | occupation = Painter, art critic and teacher, translator and writer | years_active = | known_for =Alkhas was one of the contemporary Iranian painters who spent more than thirty-five years of his life studying and teaching. | notable_works = }} [[File:1727796123646-2e16c294-0eb8-4a1f-aec6-ea6968b63707.jpg|thumb|Painting by Hannibal Alkhas (private collection)]] [[File:1727796155931-24f2f634-dd2d-4735-a21a-56f52d5bf684.jpg|thumb|Painting by Hannibal Alkhas (private collection)]] '''Hannibal Alkhas''' (1930 – 2010) was a sculptor, painter and author.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.elahe.net/artist.php?folder=Alkhas |title=Hannibal Alkhas / Painting / Elahe Gallery :: Persian online art gallery |work=elahe.net |accessdate=22 September 2010 |archive-date=23 December 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223210240/http://www.elahe.net/artist.php?folder=Alkhas |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was born in 1930 in [[Iran]] into an ethnic [[Assyrian]] and [[Christian]] family and spent his childhood and teenage years in [[Kermanshah]], Ahwaz and [[Tehran]]. In 1951, Hannibal Alkhas moved to the [[United States]] in pursuit of his education and studied [[philosophy]] for three years at Loyola University of [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]]. [[File:1727795919740-edde5e7e-3b4c-4bc0-9c63-f67bc39273e9.jpg|thumb|Painting by Hannibal Alkhas (private collection)]] [[File:1727795962005-208d0808-b1b6-47a7-a3be-0940b55ebe42.jpg|thumb|Painting by Hannibal Alkhas (private collection)]] Fr