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The Angel's Pool, 1997
Boullata was born in 1942 in Jerusalem where he grew up. He
graduated from the Rome Fine Arts Academy and from the Corcoran
Museum Art School. In 1993 and 1994, he was the recipient of a
Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellowship to conduct research on Islamic
art in Morocco. Among the public collections containing Boullata’s
art are the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, The British Museum,
London, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Patronato de
la Alhambra, Granada, New York Public Library, New York, A.H.
Shoman Foundation, Amman, A.M. Qattan Foundation, London, UNESCO,
Paris, World Bank, Washington, DC, Pyramid Atlantic, Riverdale, MD
Gulf Cooperation Council, Riyadh. The United States, Kuwait,
Holland, and Canada, as well as in the UK, Morocco, and Jerusalem.
Boullata participated in the French Palestinian spring exhibit at
the Paris Institut du Monde Arabe, and wrote the exhibit's
catalogue. In 1998, he held an exhibit at the Sakakini of the
“Granada Portfolio”, which he donated to the Center.
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