Sentences with phrase «islamic calligrapher»
Over the course of two painstaking years in the late 1990s, Saddam Hussein had sat regularly with a nurse and an Islamic calligrapher; the former drawing 27 litres of his blood and the latter using it as a macabre ink to transcribe a Qur» an.
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Free programs that complemented the Nasher exhibition included a panel discussion on Islamic art, religion and history; a free Eid al - Adha celebration and artist talk by calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya; the annual Semans Lecture by Massumeh Farhad, chief curator and curator of Islamic art at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; an artist talk by artist Shahzia Sikander; Free Family Day events; K - 12 teacher workshops; films, book discussions and more.