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On Thursday Nov. 8, the Muslim Students Association hosted their fall dinner at Wilbur Cross Reading Room. The event featured guest speaker Rasha Ahmed, a University of Connecticut alumni who is now ...
The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) shines a spotlight on a series of public programmes celebrating A Seat at the Table: Food & ...
Saudi Arabia has launched a museum that is dedicated exclusively to Islamic art. The House of Islamic Arts, located in Jeddah ...
How Islamic art history has been constrained by colonialism, war, and Western epistemologies; and how it calls for a fundamental rethinking of the field.
Museum of Islamic Art Gallery 11—Egypt and Syria, a view of the table displays with metalwork and glass lamps from the Mamluk period (end of the 13th to the 15th century C.E.); in the background ...
An art history class at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., included Islamic artworks from the 14th and 16th century that depicted the prophet Muhammad.
The Minaret (Edinburg University Press, 2013); Arts of the City Victorious: Islamic Art and Architecture in Fatimid North Africa and Egypt (Yale University Press, 2007).; Paper Before Print: The ...
Qatar unveiled Tuesday its landmark Museum of Islamic Art after an 18-month renovation ahead of the World Cup in a bid to be a "showcase" for the Arab world."We are the biggest Museum of Islamic Art ...
The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World, features over 200 works from the Middle East, Asia, and beyond. Courtesy photo ...
The Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo reopened on January 20, some three years after it was damaged in a 2014 car bombing orchestrated by Egyptian jihadists. It is home to one of the world’s most ...