When I walked into artist Samia Halaby’s Manhattan studio, I was immediately greeted by art. Maybe that seems obvious, but I hadn’t been to a studio like hers — or met an artist like her — before.
DUBAI — Samia Halaby is an important and celebrated leader of abstract painting, and a scholar of Palestinian art. Born in Jaffa in 1936, in what was then Mandatory Palestine, Halaby was forced to ...