Sentences with phrase «from arab»

In designing the towers, the architects drew inspiration from Arab mashrabiya windows — sun and privacy screens found in traditional Islamic architecture.

Iraq About Blog Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries is a one - stop blog on Jews from Arab and Muslim Countries and the Middle East's forgotten Jewish refugees, updated daily.

Wandering Spice is a recipe and story journal, bringing together food from my Arab roots with inspiration from my travels, motherhood and the trials of daily life.

About Blog Al - Masdar Al - «Arabi (The Arab Source) is dedicated to providing the latest news and analysis from the Arab world.

Egyptian startups raised a total of US$ 9.3 million in 2017, according to the most recent African Tech Startups Funding Report, as investment continued to return to the North African country as its economy recovers from the Arab Spring.

Arab Alabama is relatively lenient with regard to retaining points on your driver's license and will remove points from your Arab Alabama driving record once the traffic violation is two years old.

The GCC market has largely recovered from the Arab Spring and M&A activity has been increasing steadily year - on - year since the financial crisis.

In what Batir Wardam of Arab Environment Watch called «an unprecedented expression from an Arab official using [a] modern social media tool,» Jordanian Environment Minister Khalid Irani used this year's Blog Action Day as an opportunity to speak out about climate change on a popular local website.

GreentechMedia debates if the U.S. will move from Arab oil dependence to Asian car battery dependence.

It also presents the ESCWA Guide on Climate Negotiations for Representatives and Negotiators from the Arab Countries as well as the impact of three regional training workshops on capacity development for climate change negotiations, which were conducted by ESCWA in cooperation with the League of Arab States.

Read more about the green Middle East: Green News From the Arab Blogosphere Voices From the Green Egyptian Blogosphere

Organized by a local NGO it was a short walk in the city with a unified message from the Arab countries.

From the Arab revolutions to the Occupy movements, there has been an upsurge in popular protests in the past couple of years.

Safa» Al Jayoussi, Executive Director / IndyACT, said: «Concrete steps were taken in this year's COP23, now we need to move this into action toward pre-2020 ambition on the local and subregional level, especially from the Arab Region were the extreme weather events are hitting very hard with highest temperature has been recorded in multiple locations this year, our region is the most vulnerable yet have the most renewable energy opportunities that are barely tackled yet.»

Al - Khudhairi specializes in modern and contemporary art from the Arab world and is a curator at the Birmingham Museum of Art.

These works, narrated from an Arab point of view, shed new light on the roots of some of the major cultural and sociopolitical crises of today.

«The idea came in 2011, from the Arab Spring, the looting of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and the struggle between the past and the future — all the fear and turbulence.

A snapshot from the London Blitz in «Circa 1940», Pre-revolutionary Paris in «Circa 1968», and an image from the Arab Spring in «Circa 2011».

Massoudy's new English - language book of works inspired by love poems from the Arab and Islamic world, Calligraphies of Love was released in April, 2017.

In the I AM exhibition, the participating artists, all of Middle Eastern origin, are both from Muslim and Christian traditions, as they are from Arab and Persian backgrounds.

In light of recent events in which the demand for societal reform has become an urgent issue both abroad and at home — from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement — Ezawa's portrait of democracy could not be more timely.

In 1994, she participated in the traveling exhibition «Forces of Change: Women Artists From the Arab World» in Washington.

The exhibition features 25 works in a range of differing media, including photography, sculpture, video, and installation art, by 20 artists from the Arab world.

They included other Europeans who sought similar adventures and the porters and guides who bore the weight of their supplies as well as slaves freed from Arab slave traders.

Consisting of acquisitions, commissions and donations, the ADMAF Art Collection focuses on Emirati practice and seeks to highlight artistic expression from the Arab world and Middle East.

Meeting Points is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts festival focused on the contextualized presentation of art from the Arab World.

Staging Histories project Also part of Performance as Process, Delfina Foundation has launched an initiative to document the history of performance art from the Arab world through Art Basel's Crowdfunding Initiative.

The three Palestinian artists who did, as well as the Israelis, agreed to participate in the exhibition with the understanding that it was to directly address human rights violations, but after receiving critical pressure from the Arab world (via Facebook), combined with inflammatory coverage from pro-Israeli media, the Palestinian artists were concerned for their safety, and a potential loss of trust in their community once they returned home.

Future programs include a major presentation of works by Toronto native Megan Rooney; the first showing in Canada of Chantal Akerman's immersive video installation NOW; an exhibition with Basma Al Sharif in collaboration with Consortium Commissions initiated by Mophradat, an international non-profit association supporting artists from the Arab world; and an exhibition formed in dialogue with Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

In the exhibition «Instantanés d'Orient» is on presentation a selection of photographs from the Biennal of contemporary photographers from the Arab world shown in Paris at the Arab world institute as well as at the European house of photography in 2017.

Kunsthaus Bregenz features the Egyptian artist's latest works on the history of the Crusades from an Arab perspective.

Spanning more than twenty - five years of contemporary art from the Arab world, beginning in 1990, the included works map the recent sociopolitical history of the region, demonstrating the myriad ways that artists have addressed seismic shifts or events like the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

Shurooq Amin, Sadik Alfraji, and Khaled Hafez will be part of «In the Eye of the Thunderstorm: Effervescent Practices from the Arab World», a collateral project at the 56th Venice Biennale gathering a pan-Arab line - up of artists under one pavilion.

Halawani recently received grants from the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the Open Society Institute for two new photographic series that she completed in Palestine.

Here she will reveal a selection of works by little - known talents from the Arab world as well as several Tunisian photographers.

Shawky's film trilogy Cabaret Crusades (2010 - 2013) is based on a book by the French - Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, in which the story of the war is told from an Arab perspective.

Among the year's Middle East - themed exhibitions, several Saudi artists participated in «Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World» (6/16 — 10/28) at Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, in «Light from the Middle East: New Photography» (11/13 — 4/7/13) at London's Victoria & Albert Museum and in «Hajj — Journey to the Heart of Islam» (1/26 — 4/15) at the British Museum.

eL Seed is a recent TED fellow and was also the first artist from the Arab world to collaborate on a product for Louis Vuitton.

Our four - part collaboration with the Barjeel Art Foundation, who hold one of the most extensive collections of art from the Arab region, allowed us to show modern and contemporary works telling the story of Arab art over 100 years.

Their installations feature diverse photographs from the Arab Image Foundation — an archive in Beirut housing more than 70,000 images taken by professional and amateur photographers from the late 19th century to the present.

The backdrop for the discussion will be the Gallery's current exhibition Game II, which focuses on the recent uprisings around the world from the Arab Spring in the Middle East to the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the United States.

Samira Abbassy's self - portraiture and mixed - media sculptures explore cultural identity, knitting together disparate visual languages, conventions and myths drawn from Arab - Iranian, Persian, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Jewish and Buddhist traditions.

NYU's Grey Art Gallery Presents Rare Glimpse of Portrait Photography From the Arab World A Project by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari — Arab Image Foundation January 11 — April 2, 2005 [DOWNLOAD FULL RELEASE] New York City, October 25, 2004.

National Museum of Women in the Arts is proud to present the exhibition of images by 12 women photographers from the Arab world titled She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World.

In the second part of Wael Shawky's two - part video Cabaret Crusade (2012), antique Italian puppets become specific historical protagonists in an ingenious re-telling of the first and second Crusades from an Arab perspective, through subtle shifts in the marionettes» costumes and beautifully crafted sets.

Shirin Neshat's many confrontational portraits, Masses, from the Arab Spring, thus meet us eye to eye, human to human, across national boundaries and conflicts.

14.30 Collecting Art from the Arab world, with collector Ramzi Dalloul in conversation with Sultan Sooud Al - Qassemi, scholar, columnist, founder of Barjeel Art Foundation

He is Creative Director of Edge of Arabia — a non-profit platform for contemporary art and creative movements from the Arab World.

From Tunisia all the way to Saudi Arabia, this landmark exhibition brings together more than twenty - five recent works and commissions by some of the foremost artists from the Arab world.

Oraib Toukan's first solo exhibition, at the Jordanian arts foundation Darat al - Funun, delved into a dialectic between memory and amnesia that has become almost overbearing in contemporary art practice from the Arab world.