“Poetry for Arabs constitutes a privileged oral realm, a conduit for the culture’s psyche, matched only by the exquisite refinement of calligraphy. In this exhibition, the lines written by Arab poets meet the lines drawn by fellow artists.”

Exhibition: “Lines on Grief,” group exhibition (featuring Abdulrahman Hashlamon, Eman Fikri, Ethar Elaagib, Farah Fayyad, Ghalia Elsrakbi, Hala Al-Ani, Haneen Nazzal, Khawlah Alshaibani, Kinda Ghannoum, Mahmoud Abdelghany, Mohammed Ameer, Muharam Hassan, Muiz, Nassim Azarzar, Nour Zahabi, Mohammed Tatour, Tawfiq Dawi, Walid Bouchouchi, Yehia Moldan, and Zeina Ahmad Taha), part of the project Elegiac Whispers, A. M. Qattan Foundation, Ramallah, January 19 – March 17, 2026.

Keywords: curatorial practice, exhibition, Arabic, lettering, typography, calligraphy, calligraphic, expression, print, posters, installation, art, contemporary, language, discourse, discursive, text, syntax, script, letters, poetry, prose, grief, sorrow, lamentation, loss, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Southwest Asia (”Middle East”), North Africa, SWANA, Arab, Arabic speaking, world, region, Ramallah, West Bak, Palestine

Image: Khalid Fanni and AMQF