"But how did the exhibit get lost? The bag tag was apparently missing, despite the secure placement of the tag by Allenby. Witter said .." Photo: Wedad Boutagy, a member of the Sydney, Australia Palestinian community, stands in front of an exhibition exhibition graphic showing her in a Jerusalem studio photograph as a young woman, at the opening night of the Archive's travelling exhibition "Portraits without names: Palestinian costume" at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, 1996. The story of the Boutagy family was one of the diaspora stories told in the Sydney installation of the exhibition (courtesy: Powerhouse Museum).
“There’s an old adage that art imitates life but on November 1, 2003, it was life imitating art when a highly-acclaimed Palestinian exhibit from Australia was taken for a security check/x ray at Los Angeles airport's Terminal 4 and has not been seen since. The lost exhibit became another page torn from the history of Palestinians.”
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