Hanaa Malallah’s The Daffodils reads Gertrude Bell’s letters from British-occupied Baghdad against the artist’s own journey from Iraq to Britain a century later. Kiersten Neumann—Curator of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) Museum, Research Associate at ISAC, and Lecturer in Art History at the University of Chicago—discusses her collaboration on this project with Malallah, and a curatorial practice that centers artists of Middle Eastern heritage, drawing on archaeological collections, many displaced by colonial-era excavation, in support of their work.