The Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar is showing works by Samia Halaby that were meant to appear in a canceled survey to be held last year at Indiana University.

In December 2023, the school’s Eskenazi Museum of Art called off the Palestinian artist’s show, citing “safety reasons.” The show was scrapped just a month before it was to open at the university’s Eskenazi Museum of Art; Halaby, 87 at the time of the cancellation, had earned a master’s degree at the university and later taught there. Halaby noted at the time that the cancelation came “at a time when Palestinian civilians are being massacred, starved, and displaced by the millions in Gaza.”

In 2024, Michigan State University’s museum ended up staging a different exhibition of her work. Halaby also won a special mention for her participation at the Venice Biennale that year.

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