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  PIECE PROCESS: EVERY WALL SHALL FALL
March 1 - 29th, 2008
These artists, both Israeli and Palestinian, Jewish and Arab, men and women, are committed to exhibiting together in order to explore the Israel-Palestine conflict and the possibility of peace.
Participating artists include Granite Amit, Doris Bittar, Rajie Cook, Abdelali Dahrouch, Joyce Dallal, Hanah Diab, Michele Feder-Nadoff, John Halaka,
Kanaan Kanaan, John Pitman-Weber, Jenny Polak and Amie Potsic.
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  My Roof in Ruins, I Drown in Light:
Recent paintings by Osama Khatlan

February 2 - 23rd, 2008
"The expression of experience becomes possible with an organic link to disclose the values of color, line, form and material that create a total human understanding. A spectator is to be believed. I want to think that my paintings contain a clear reflection of the overriding human passions that unfold with increasing assurance."
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  OFFERING RECONCILIATION
135 Israeli and Palestinian artists received clay bowls under the theme of "Offering Reconciliation."
October 4th –18th, 2007
From this point forth they each embarked on a personal path, to each their own interpretation and narrative of reconciliation and all the values that stem from it - coexistence, pain, loss, rift and fusion. Each artist presents his own unique reconciliation piece as a means of hope.
The exhibit was conceived and organized by The Parents Circle – Families Forum, an organization of Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families working for reconciliation and peace.
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  BABYLONINAN WOMEN: Four Californian Artists with Roots in Iraq
Curated by and includes artist Lidia Shaddow, with Halla Ayla, Joyce Dallal and Doris Bittar.
September 6th through September 27th, 2007
“This exhibition grew from a personal search for artistic representation of the Arab culture in Los Angeles, separate from the news and the negative stigma that resonates from the word ‘Arab’. A view that focused on the beauty and the richness of that and echoes my upbringing. Being born to an Iraqi father in Israel of the early sixties was not something to be proud of, however, my Babylonian roots were not even an issue upon emigrating to America. Between shame and denial of ones cultural identity lays a strong need to reunite with it. In the search for that familiar voice I found these three exceptional artists.” - Curator
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Contemporary Iraqi Art - 2007 Spring / Summer Exhibition
Hana Mal-Allah
Ismail Khayat
Qasim Sabti
Mohammed Al Shammarey
Hayder Ali
Nazar Yahya
Naziha Rashid
Amar Dawod
Esam Pasha
Ghassam Ghayeb
Farah Nosh
Oded Ha