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Join us for a special conversation held in the context of The Lost Paintings: a Prelude to Return. Curators Rula Khoury and Joëlle Tomb will be joined by exhibiting artists Razan AlSalah, RIDIKKULUZ, and Muhammad El Khairy to share insights on the exhibition’s vision, creation, and collaborative process. The conversation will be moderated by Farah Atoui.
Free entry, no reservation required.
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Rula Khoury is an art curator, historian, and critic, currently based in Haifa. She holds a Master’s degree in Art History from the University of Haifa and a second Master’s in Writing Art Criticism from the School of Visual Arts, New York.
Khoury served as General Director of the Arab Culture Association in Haifa (2020) and, prior to that, as Artistic Director of the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah (2014). In 2014, as part of the Qalandiya International Biennale, she curated the Manam exhibition in Haifa and Mapping Procession, a street-based happening in Ramallah. She was also one of the curators of the Autonomous Biennale (2023, 2025).
Her art criticism has been published in various international magazines, including AWARE, Tohu Magazine, and Tribe Photo Magazine. She has also published two children’s books, one of them in collaboration with the Barjeel Foundation. In addition, Khoury has taught in higher education institutions, offering courses on the history of Palestinian art and the fundamentals of art history.
Her latest project is the establishment of a new art gallery in Jaffa, Al-Mathaneh.
Joëlle Tomb is an abstract painter, art advocate and curator based in Newton, MA. She was born in Lebanon and raised in Saudi Arabia and Canada, where she gained her Master’s in Education. Her grandfather, Maroun Tomb, was a prolific painter and her father Fouad Tomb is a modern Lebanese painter who dedicated his life to arts education. She served as a docent at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston for three years and facilitated various public art projects. She is currently the Board President of the New Art Centre and is on the Advisory board of ARCK (Art Resource Collaborative for Kids) and the Nearby Gallery. She also presides over the Fouad & May Tomb Foundation for the Arts, her family’s international art platform dedicated to preserving the family’s artistic heritage and to promoting art for humanity. Joëlle’s first solo exhibition took place in Newton City Hall (2019), and since then she has participated in several group shows locally and internationally. Her curatorial work includes, Mehswar “A Painter’s Return” (2022) at the Nearby Gallery in Newton, MA; Meshwar of an artist from Palestine to Lebanon: Dialogue between two generations Maroun & Fouad Tomb (2023) at Dar El Nimer for Arts & Culture in Beirut, Lebanon; and Aswat: Elevating Arab Women Voices (2023) at the New Art Center in Newton, MA.
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Curators: Rula Khoury, Joëlle Tomb, Haidi Motola
Artists: Noor Abed • Abed Abedi • Hala Abo Freh • Ghassan Yousef Abulaban • Tala Abunuwar • Ruba Al-Faraouna • Dalia Osama Ali • Faten Abu Ali • Ola Alkernawi • Sama Alshaibi • Aysha E Arar • Doaa Badran • Nasrin Abu Baker • Joanna Barakat • Jacqueline Bassoul Béjani • Doris Bittar • Benji Boyadgian • Muhammad Nour Elkhairy • Faissal El-Malak • Ashraf Fawakhry • Michael Halak • Aya Abu Hawash • Raed Issa • Iman Jabrah • Khaled Jarrar • Mado Kelleyan • Juhaina Habibi Kandalaft • Dina Nazmi Khorchid • Bayan Kiwan • Noel Maghathe • Yara Kassem Mahajena • Maria Saleh Mahameed • Souad Nasr Makhoul • Suleiman Mansour • Sara Mraish • Zohdy Qadry • Antoine Elias Raffoul • Ridikkuluz • Fatima Abu Roomi • Steve Sabella • Razan AlSalah • Nora Sayyad • Farid Abu Shakra • Samah Shihadi • Nardeen Srouji • Dalleh Tarabey • Fouad Tomb • Lorena Tomb • Sandra Tomb • Mary Tuma • Sharif Waked • Ronen Zien • Manar Zuabi