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on the topography, trees, and wildflowers that have since disappeared with increased urbanization. According to Samia Halaby, "Sophie's landscapes are a precious record of the beauty of the land and the love affair
Palestinians have with it." Tania Tamari Nasser, a writer and singer, has described how “Halaby's glowing color and her treatment of the wild flowers of Palestine inspired" her and her friends in their youth. One of these friends, Kamal Boullata, remembers checking the sisters' storefront exhibit for new paintings every day on his way to school.
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The loose, even casual nature of Halaby's landscapes evoke an "atmospheric, dreamlike quality one might even consider melancholic." Halaby's watercolours depict the landscape surrounding
Jerusalem without the usual focus on religious sites or orientalist panoramas of the city. Instead, she focussed
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and its surrounding landscapes. She was among the first Arab women to study art in Paris, and returned to her homeland to teach, paint, and criticize
British and Zionist colonialism. Throughout her life, she supported and influenced later generations of Palestinian artists including
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Halaby was born to a
Palestinian Christian father, Jiryes (George) Nicola Halaby, and a Russian Orthodox mother, Olga Akimovna Khudobasheva. Her parents met when her father was studying in Russia at the Kyiv Theological Academy, and moved back between Jerusalem and
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