by iwamag | Sep 26, 2016 | news
BY IWAMAG NEW YORK, Sep 26th 2016 – Today at The Metropolitan Museum opens the new exhibition Jerusalem 1000-1400: Every People Under Heaven, that will run until next January 8th, 2017. The exhibition wants to underline the key role that Jerusalem, the Holy...
by iwamag | Feb 24, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016, the bookshelf
The Bookshelf Perspectives on Early Islamic Art in Jerusalem by Lawrence Nees Brill Publication date: October 2015 ISBN: 9789004301764 Hardback, 235 pages, 71 illustrations $ 179,00 Almost every month a new book on Jerusalem and its long history is published, but...
by iwamag | Feb 18, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016
Maritime art has been drawing on the history and destiny of thousands of men and women since the 16th century. Today, maritime installations tell us something more about what we are prepared to do to survive and of the price of indifference Dr. Bilgehan Köhler Curator...
by iwamag | Feb 18, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016, literary brackets
In 1963, the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani wrote Men in the Sun, the tragic story of three Palestinian refugees who put their lives at risk for the sake of a better future Sara Ibrahim IWA – Islamic World of Art’s Editor-in-Chief and Publishing...
by iwamag | Feb 18, 2016 | issue #2 | winter 2016
Photos by Abdulrahman Bader and Massimo Tartaro As Oleg Grabar puts it, “The Great Mosque of Cordoba is acknowledged as a major masterpiece of Islamic architecture”. The Great Mosque of Cordoba has been described by scholars as both a typical hypostyle mosque (i.e. a...
