IAIA’s founder and patron Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani. Courtesy of Institute of Arab and Islamic Art I tend to look at styles and aesthetics, and go into a deeper reading of those artists, and ...

Zarina Hashmi's work that imagines "home" as an idea we carry with us sets the tone for the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art's first exhibition in New York. An installation view of Exhibition 1 at ...

Islamic calligraphy was developed from Arabic writing that predates Islam. Calligraphy is used as a marker of religious and intellectual cultivation, and is used to inscribe the word of God through ...

The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art throws open its doors in May. The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art is scheduled to open in New York in May. Courtesy IAIA/ Lilli Rose. Sarah Cascone March 7, ...

"Sites of Imagination" at Doha's Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art shines a light on the multifacted Qatari artist. Wafa al-Hamad, Lailat Al Hena (Henna Night) (1992). Collection Mathaf: Arab Museum ...

"I love it here," said Jeff Koons. "This is my sixth time in Doha since 2000." Koons denied that he had a project in Qatar, saying rather that he liked taking his kids for buggy rides in the sand ...

ST. BONAVENTURE – Seeking to promote an understanding of Arab and Islamic cultures and an appreciation of both their historical and contemporary significance in the global community, St. Bonaventure ...

His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, yesterday inaugurated the Rashid bin Khalifa Art Collection exhibition, which highlights Arabic and Islamic art.

Islamic Art Museum in the Bab Al-Khalq area in the heart of Historic Cairo is considered the largest Islamic art museum in the world; where the museum houses more than 100,000 diverse artifacts of ...

Director: Mohammed Kadalah, Ph.D. The Arabic, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies (AIMES) minor offers a unique opportunity to explore the languages, cultures, histories, and traditions of a dynamic ...

Several thought-provoking exhibitions are currently on display across the Arab world. From a travelling show of contemporary Saudi artists to one that highlights Beirut as a hub for abstraction in the ...

When I asked my students why should we care about Islamic art, baffled by the question in an art history course, they answered “because they are objects of art that carry beauty.” Yet, as we well know ...