Born in Roumieh (1942 - 1992). Dorothy Salhab Zazemi studied art at the Lebanese American, then English literature at the American University of Beirut, where she received a BA. She attended the school of Arts and Crafts in Copenhagen, Denmark, studying under the renowned European ceramist Gutte Erikson. She taught ceramics in Glasgow, and taught at the Lebanese American University for one decade, and assisted as a ceramics expert, with the French-Syrian archeological excavation site of Mayadin in Syria.

Her main individual exhibitions were in Glasgow, Beirut, Copenhagen, Damascus, and France.

The group exhibitions she participated in wherein Copenhagen and Iraq.

Salhab Kazemi was the pioneer of modern art ceramics in Lebanon. Her refined and subtle art merges Oriental, Japanese, and Occidental elements in a remarkable personal synthesis of tradition and modernity.

Her sculptures, seemingly abstract, yet highly erotic inform, reveal a profound perception of the eternal duality that exists between nature and the human body. The shapes, slowly undulating in sensuous curves, relate to figurative fragments of reality, suggesting a flower, a shell, an animal, the segment of a body. All are soft and time-worn in texture, quietly evoking echoes of a primordial age when nature and man were one.