“I am Printmaker, Painter and Photographer. My artwork is heavily drawn from my Indian culture, family and personal experiences.”
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Shezana graduated from Northeastern University with a BA in Studio Arts and a concentration in painting.
Dallas Museum of Art Mounts a New Installation of One of the World’s Leading Islamic Art Collections
Installation Comprises More than 150 Works of Art in New Dedicated Gallery
Andrew Kosorok writes on Sufi Comics and Rumi.
Born in 1207, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi lived in Persia and Afghanistan, then settled in Turkey. Before his passing in 1273, Rumi had written 65,000 lines of poetry – a legacy which influences and inspires people around the world 8 centuries later.
For the last three months, I’ve had the opportunity to be on assignment, through Uber, in Cairo, Egypt.
“The Madrasa in Iran and Baghdad under the Saljuqs”
The PDF book associated with the event includes Ayaz Pirani’s poem ‘African Masks’.
The event is hosted by the Afghan Coalition, a nonprofit organization serving Afghan refugees in the Bay Area, the City of Fremont, and The Aga Khan Council for the Western United States.
Sponsored by the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures (SFU) and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (Aga Khan University, UK)
Inspiring TEDx Talk by Thomas Woltz of Nelson Byrd Woltz landscape architect, who designed the Aga Khan Islamic Garden at University of Alberta Garden.
Sustaining Tradition or Embracing Change? Prisse d’Avennes and the Strategies of Visualizing Islamic Architecture of Cairo in French Books
The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT has released its prototype of Layer Cake, a 3-axes mapping tool that enables users to build maps layering narrative, time, and space simultaneously.
Pamir Energy—a partnership of the Government of Tajikistan, the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development and the International Finance Corporation—worked with USAID and the Aga Khan Foundation USA to extend transmission lines across the Panj River
Safeena Mecklai saw firsthand how much one family’s success can spark success for other members of a struggling community.
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