Brief info
Omar Chakil was born Omar El Wakil in Beirut in 1974. He carries multiple worlds simultaneously,
Lebanese, French, and Egyptian. His family’s lineage within Egypt’s intellectual and
institutional life spans generations. His practice is an act of presence and translation, performed across disciplines
over time: first through music, as one of the early architects of Soul in France where
Warner Music named him Omar Chakil as a contraction of his birth name Omar Chams
El Wakil; then through the design of private interiors across the globe; and through
objects, installations, and writing.