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The late Palestinian scholar, Edward Said, remarked that Palestinians had been denied permission to narrate their history and speak of the day-to-day experiences of life in the margins. Here, we reclaim that permission to narrate our own stories.
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Yousef Munayyer: Solitude and Absurdity. Perhaps no two other words better described the scene at the United Nations earlier this year when US Ambassador Susan Rice raised her hand with a reluctant expression on her face to veto a Security Council resolution condemning Israeli colonial expansion.
Fall in Washington brings a number of art fairs, formal and informal. For me, it is a good way to scout potential exhibitors for the Gallery. There are many talented Arab American artists working in the DC area and not enough venues.
With the Washington heat, it is hard to believe we are looking at Fall. But September brings us the beginning of an exciting new season of exhibitions at the Gallery. While Bassima Mustafa’s deep images of olive groves continue to cool us off in through September, I will be in Texas visiting the contemporary art galleries with a view to an exhibition here in the future.
Palestinian-Texan artist Adam Chamy explores identity, myth, and home through a series of family portraits and installation works that weave themes of migration, roots, and belonging.
Yousef Munayyer: As Palestinians prepare to seek membership in the United Nations, critics are quick to label this a damaging unilateral strategy.
New Jersey photographer Bassima Mustafa’s Whispers of Palestine revisits her family’s olive groves, to trace Palestine through its land and architecture, which she feels are integral to understanding the country and its history.
Yousef Munayyer: Dozens of innocents were murdered by a terrorist act in Norway. But not all the casualties were human. Other casualties included some dangerous but commonly-held assumptions about terrorism.
In this work Nadira Araj used playing cards to form the set of each of the UN Security Council (SC) resolutions concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
The weather in Washington has already been hot for weeks, and the forecast indicates that it will continue to be so throughout the summer. Here at the Gallery, we think things have been “hot” as well. Our exhibition Breaching the Wall had a record opening crowd, and continues to generate heat in the press.
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