Meer published a listing for Fellow Travellers on 12 October 2026, four days after the exhibition opened at Tabari in Dubai. The page presents the show as conceived and curated by artist, author and cultural historian Professor Omar Kholeif, and asks how the routes, flows and counter-flows of modernity might be re-imagined in the present. It carries no byline.
The listing names five artists with their dates and places: Sonia Balassanian (born 1942, Armenian-Iranian-American), Jai Chuhan (born 1955, Punjab), Luísa Correia Pereira (1945 to 2009, Portuguese), Lalitha Lajmi (1932 to 2023, Indian) and Irene Scheinmann (1933 to 2023, Iraqi-British), with Kholeif, born in Cairo. Their work traces journeys across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Painting is the thread, a way of recovering diasporic histories, oral traditions, symbolic languages and ancestral knowledge, and the landmark and rarely seen works hang beside Kholeif's own paintings, shown under their own name for the first time.
