The new clearly show at the Center East Institute in Washington, DC asks a basic query: why has there been so small recognition of Arab-American artwork in the US? “If you search at the unique ethnic communities in the US whose artwork scenes have produced major development in the final 20 decades, we would consider of the Asian American local community, the Chicano local community, or the black local community,” suggests Maymanah Farhat, curator of Converging Strains: Tracing the Artistic Lineage of the Arab Diaspora in the US. “It’s great, in phrases of their remaining even more involved and historicised. But the Arab-American artistic community is nonetheless uncharted territory in…