Dr. Foley presented a paper in June 2024 on why Riyadh is a center for culture in the Arab World to a conference on artistic hubs in and of the Arab region. The international conference was sponsored by LAWHA (Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943”) and held at the Orient-Institut Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon. The conferenced featured scholars presenting on a variety of topics linked to the arts from Lebanon, the wider Arab world, Europe, and North America.
