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- ↑ Lloyd, Fran, ed. Contemporary Arab Women’s Art: Dialogues of the Present. London: WAL (Women’s Art Library), 1999. pp. 239, 209-212.
- ↑ Going solo, Gulf News, 8 May 2002.
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