When Jenan Matari, the cofounder of MissMuslim.com, asked me to wear contemporary Muslim clothing including a headscarf as part of A Day in Her Hijab — a virtual event she is organizing for December ...
Ahead of the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar in November 2022, the museum has been given a makeover. Ahead of the FIFA World Cup set to take place in Qatar this November, the Museum of ...
Last month, Paris's Louvre museum opened its new Islamic Art Wing amidst uproar over the series of controversial Mohammed cartoons that were published in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo to 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 ...
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 ...
Art galleries are generally quiet, hushed spaces, but at the Los Angeles County Museum a show called Islamic Art Now is sparking some heated discussions as visitors ponder the photographs, paintings ...
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Islamic­ influenced art and imagery has cropped up in games from Journey to Prince of Persia, but now a couple of game developers are out to prove ...
In Athens’ old city, the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art stands as a testament to the cultural bridge between Greece and the rich artistic traditions of the Muslim world. Since 2004, the museum has been ...
The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) will be the sole North American venue for an exhibition titled, “Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity,” which will open May 14 and run through September 18.