DIPLOMACY & DRESS Join us on the Sofa as Rawdha Al Otaiba speaks to Dr Reem El Mutwalli on Diplomacy & Dress. Join us for our next dialogue - 'Diplomacy & Dress' OUR GUEST: RAWDHA AL OTAIBA DEPUTY HEAD OF MISSION UNITED ARAB EMIRATES EMBASSY, UK- LONDON Rawdha Al Otaiba [...]
Join the Shaikh Abdallah Al-Salem Cultural Centre in Kuwait for a virtual talk from the Islamic Art Series, from Fairytales to Sovereigns and “The Foundation of the Imperial Vision of Qajar Persia” by Juan De Lara, Cultural Programme Manager at Asia House.
Description Indians appear in Persian painting long before the Safavid period (1501-1722), either as characters in illustrations of the Shahnameh of Ferdowsi or Khamsa of Nizami or as unidentified labourers, elephant jockeys and the like. Over the course of the 16th and 17th centuries the Persian depiction of Indians expanded to include portraits and [...]
Culturally significant animals in Arabia have become endangered due to habitat and population loss. This seminar – relating on the book Wuhush al-Qasidah – will shed light on the prominence and roles some of those animals played in pre-Islamic (Jahili) Arabic poetry, demonstrating their important place in Arabic literature. This [...]
In this conversation, Seif El Rashidi will discuss the over one thousand-year-old tradition of textile appliqué work (khayamiyya) in Egypt and how the aesthetic of the craft has been adapted to cater to international audiences and adopted by contemporary designers. Video footage of master-stitchers at work will also feature as part of this conversation.