Career
A versatile painter, designer and sculptor - Rababi was truly a woman far ahead of her times. Rababi donated most of the proceeds from sales of her art to support humanitarian causes. In recognition and memory of her artistic and charitable contributions, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund created a Sughra Rababi Fund and the Mayor of San Francisco declared 19 January 1994, as Sughra Rababi Day in San Francisco.
Her last solo exhibition was held in 1992 in San Francisco, California.
Rababi’s art was original and her style, versatile and truly her own. She was a prolific artist and created landscapes, figurative and calligraphic paintings and used tempera, oil and acrylic as her mediums.
Rababi was also a designer and a sculptor. Posthumous reproductions of her art are sold to support humanitarian causes.