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!
