Painting for Palestine: Laila al-Shawa takes her art to the walls of Gaza
Laila al-Shawa is the owner of the first cultural and artistic center in Palestine, which she founded in 1987 as a tribute to her late father, who was mayor of […]
Muslim exhibition for your eyes only – if you’re a woman
A Lower Hutt art gallery is fielding complaints following the announcement that men will be banned from viewing an upcoming exhibition that shows Muslim women without veils. The Dowse Art Museum is preparing to host the world premiere of a video display entitled Cinderazahd: For Your Eyes Only, that shows […]
Recalling our debt to Islam
Recalling our debt to Islam BY VERN BARNET: Special to The Star: This may be a good time, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, to ask why many of us, including […]
Islamic Architecture: Mirror of the Invisible World
Huff Post: by Robert Gardner During the production of “Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World,” which airs this Friday as part of the PBS Arts Summer Festival, we filmed […]
Islamic Art: In Paradise There Is Always Water
Huff Post: Michael Wolfe When I first traveled in Spain, the Alhambra Palace and its summer gardens were not yet tourist magnets attracting millions every year. Their beauty is indescribable, […]
Calligraphy Is the Islamic Art of Arts
Huff Post: by Michael Wolfe In Western art calligraphy is a minor art form, mostly confined to books and the occasional decorative function. But in Islamic art, the practice of beautiful writing is much more. Because it grew up alongside the Quran, Islam’s sacred book, calligraphy developed from a central […]
Fijian students thank India for assistance
Fijian students in India thankful for assistance 13:38 Sun May 27, 2012 With Mereseini Marau at Fiji High Commission, Vasant Vihar, New Delhi, India.Taken from/By: Facebook Report by: Shireen Lata Fiji students studying in India received an increase in their allowance. Fiji’s High Commissioner to India, Yogesh Karan reminded […]
Louis XIV railway carriages take to Paris-Versailles line
Rfi: Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles. They may look like any old beat-up railway train on the outside but inside they are decorated with reproductions of interiors from the royal Palace of Versailles. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20120516-louis-xiv-railway-carriages-take-paris-versailles-line
http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:402206 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Apart from being funny the video in the link illustrates a lesson to us all when it comes to politics, research, journalism, religion, etc. That things are not as […]
Muslims outraged at xenophobic graffiti
Russian TV: Moscow’s mufti Albir Krganov has appealed to the capital’s Bureau for Human Rights over nationalistic slogans and graffiti which he says insult the feelings of believers and non-Russian […]
Doha Debates audience reject Arab censorship of art
by JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — An audience at the Doha Debates has publicly expressed opposition to state censorship of the arts, still strongly enforced in the Gulf and the wider Middle East, according to a statement issued by the organisers on Tuesday. In a live session where participants discussed a […]
World’s tallest mega-mosque being built in Algeria
Russian TV: A big religious feeling deserves a big house of worship. Algeria is set to get its own mega-mosque with the tallest minaret in the world. Almost as tall […]
Where Shoes Listen and Coins Kill
Source: NY Times. By EDWARD ROTHSTEIN Published: May 17, 2012 In 1953, after the early successes of Soviet espionage demonstrated just how difficult and dangerous the cold war would become, the Central Intelligence Agency began a top-secret program called MKUltra. It included exotic projects that decades later provided much critical fodder […]
Iraqi aims to write world’s longest copy of Koran
NAJAF, Iraq — Hussein Al Kharsan kneels, bent over a giant sheet of paper, laboriously writing the words of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, in beautiful Arabic script with a traditional wood and feather pen. The 25-year-old Iraqi aims to take an unusual path to fame: writing the longest copy […]
Lahore Fort may be removed from the list of endangered world heritage sites.
Courtesy: Maqsood Ahmad Malik, Deputy Director, Directorate General of Archeology Youth Affairs, Sports, Archeology and Tourism Department A monitoring mission from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)is […]
Gunter Grass’s Controversial Poem About Israel, Iran, and War, Translated: Truth can get you banished
The Atlantic Mobile: Heather Horn: On Wednesday, Nobel-winning German writer Günter Grass published a poem denouncing Israel’s nuclear program and aggression toward Iran. The poem, in which Grass says he […]
Divine Comedy is ‘offensive and discriminatory’, says Italian NGO
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here: Dante’s medieval classic the Divine Comedy has been condemned as racist, antisemitic and Islamophobic by a group calling for it to be removed from classrooms. The epic poem, written in the 14th century, is split into three parts, tracing the poet’s journey through Inferno, Purgatorio […]
Jakarta to hold Iran cultural week
The capital city of Jakarta is scheduled to host an Iranian cultural week introducing Persian art, culture, cinema and traditions in Indonesia. The event has been organized by the Iranian […]
Master weaver from Makkah dazzles at British Museum
By JOMANA ALRASHID | ARAB NEWS LONDON: The British Museum here is hosting a demonstration of textile weaving by Hassan Alwany, the master weaver from Dar Al-Kiswa in Makkah, revealing […]