Artwork by Magdhub Ahmad Rabbah. Magdhub Ahmad Rabbah (1930-1999) was born in Berber, in the north of Sudan. He studied at the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum (previously the School of Design, Gordon Memorial College) and the Central School of Arts and Design in London. As a member of the Khartoum School art movement, Rabbah was interested in local means of artistic expression. He was known for his unique technique of producing natural colours and visual aesthetic effects on wood using wax, lenses, and sunrays. He was Dean the College of Fine and Applied Arts in Khartoum in the early 1980s. Magdhub Ahmad Rabbah died in 1999.