Gallery Al Quds 100th Show: Art is Not Optional in the Washington Post!
Check out the Washington Post review on Gallery Al Qud: Art is Not Optional
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Katie Miranda in Islamic Arts magazine
Katie Miranda and the exhibition at Gallery al-Quds in Islamic Arts magazine
Gallery Al-Quds congratulates Yazidi Activist Nadia Murad, winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize.
The Jerusalem Fund and Gallery Al-Quds congratulates Yazidi Activist Nadia Murad, winner of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. The harrowing story of Nadia’s abduction and captivity by ISIS, along with the women and girls in her village in northern Iraq in 2014, was made into the film The Last Dance of Kocho and Its Missing Girls, with original watercolor paintings by Lukman Ahmad.
Corinne Whitlatch’s “The Middle East Peace Process Carousel.”
Corinne Whitlatch’s “The Middle East Peace Process Carousel.” about the decades long struggle for Israel-Palestinian peace is included in the Hill Center’s Regional Juried Exhibition
Review of Rajie Cook’s Book, “A Vision For My Father”
“A Vision For My Father: The Life and Work of the Palestinian-American Artist and Designer Rajie Cook”, a review by Delinda C. Hanley for Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2018, pp. 68
The Washington Post Reviews “Resilient”
by Mark Jenkins
The abundant gold and turquoise of Samar Hussaini’s mixed-media paintings suggest earth and minerals. But the New Jersey artist is primarily inspired by the thob (or thwawb), the traditional Arab tunic whose embroidery denotes its regional origins. “Resilient,” the title of Hussaini’s Gallery Al Quds show, includes two stand-alone versions of a thob, as well as pictures that incorporate its design motifs.
Joint Arts Program Featured in The Washington Diplomat
In most news accounts, refugees are just cold numbers calculated in the thousands or millions, not real people with faces, names and life stories ripped asunder by war.The faces of refugees are emerging from the statistics through the work of artists in the D.C. area and across the world who are protesting injustice on numerous fronts, ranging from the many controversies triggered by the Trump administration to human rights abuses by totalitarian regimes.
Artists of the “Nakba Generation”
Artists reacted to the catastrophe of 1948 with paintings, graphics and sculptures incorporating memories of place and distance from homeland as a central theme. Artists of the “Nakba Generation” include the doyen Ismail Shammout, Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara, Naji Al–Ali, Sophie Halaby, Kamal Bullata, and Samia Halabi, the latter two still working today. Next generation … Read more
