Paris MENA art exhibition included Israel and Iran; Hamas upset

Over the weekend  Paris hosted the first MENART Fair, a modern and contemporary art show dedicated to artists from the Middle East and North Africa, presented by major galleries.

It is essentially the successor to the Beirut Art Fair which could not be held this year - but with one difference - Israeli artists were invited as well.

Hamas evidently has a Department of Artistic Production of the Islamic Resistance Movement, which condemned the participation of Arab artists at MENART because of the participation of Israeli artists.

Hamas called it "a normalizing activity with the occupation that killed Palestinian children in the last war."

However, not only didn't Arab countries boycott the exhibition - but Iran participated as well!

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