Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah

Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah is a Palestinian-American arts administrator, independent curator and researcher whose work spans museums, non-profit spaces, public art and cultural diplomacy. She is interested in the alternative histories, new visual languages, practices of fabulation and contributions of modern and contemporary diasporic artists from West Asia and North Africa and other diasporic communities from the global majority to the cultural fabric of Washington, D.C. and the broader art historical canon. 

She has curated and co-curated several exhibitions featuring West Asia and North Africa and its diaspora including More Than Your Eyes Can See: Contemporary Photography of the Arab World (2022), Perfume in Exile (2025) and the forthcoming exhibitions Arab Pop Art: Between East and West and Multitudes: Arab Women Artists/DC. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, Canvas Magazine, the National News and will be included in the forthcoming anthology, A Decolonial Guide to Palestine published by Duke University Press.