The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art November 10-11, 2019 -in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind – Surah 2:164 From medieval trade routes to the contemporary migrant crisis, the seas have served as both connective tissues and […]

The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art November 10-11, 2019 -in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind – Surah 2:164 From medieval trade routes to the contemporary migrant crisis, the seas have served as both connective tissues and […]

The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art November 10-11, 2019 -in the sailing of the ships through the ocean for the profit of mankind – Surah 2:164 From medieval trade routes to the contemporary migrant crisis, the seas have served as both connective tissues and […]

Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Defining Meaning and Value in Contemporary Islamic Art

Lalla Essaydi, Gender, Power and Tradition

HRH Wijdan Fawaz Al-Hashemi, Contemporary or Modern Islamic Art?

Nada Shabout

Nada Shabout, Contemporary Trajectories: Iraqi Art in Context

November 11, 2018 Read the full article →

Nacim Pak-Shiraz

Nacim Pak-Shiraz, Iranian Cinema Today: An Ode to the Past and New Directions in the Future?

November 10, 2018 Read the full article →

Mohammad al-Asad

Mohammad al-Asad, Whose History Is It Anyway: The Presence of the Past in the Architecture of the Lands of Islam over the Past Century and a Half

November 9, 2018 Read the full article →

Newsha Tavakolian

Newsha Tavakolian, A Shah, a Russian and My Grandfather: Iranian Photography, a History

November 8, 2018 Read the full article →

Panel Q&A – Day 1

Questions and answers with the panel of presenters from the first day of the 2017 Islamic Art Symposium

November 7, 2018 Read the full article →

Shahzia Sikander

Shahzia Sikander, The Future of Indo-Persian Miniature Painting Tradition

November 6, 2018 Read the full article →

Linda Komaroff

Linda Komaroff, Islamic Art Now and Then

November 5, 2018 Read the full article →

Hassan Hajjaj, in conversation with Alice Planel

Hassan Hajjaj, in conversation with Alice Planel, Hub Wahad: On Finding Inspiration in a Community of Nomads

November 4, 2018 Read the full article →

Venetia Porter

Venetia Porter, What does the contemporary art of the Middle East tell us about the cultures, histories, and politics of the region today?

November 3, 2018 Read the full article →

Stefano Carboni

Stefano Carboni, Collecting ‘Islamic’ Art in Southeast Asia and Australia: Past, Present and Future

November 2, 2018 Read the full article →

Panel Q&A – Day 2

Questions and answers with the panel of presenters from the second day of the 2017 Islamic Art Symposium.

November 1, 2018 Read the full article →

Introduction & Keynote Address

Sheila S. Blair, Writing as Signifier of Islam

February 4, 2016 Read the full article →

Robert Hoyland

Robert Hoyland, The Birth of Arabic Writing on Stone

February 3, 2016 Read the full article →

Angelika Neuwirth

Angelika Neuwirth, Scripture, Revelation, and Writing: The Qur’an’s Epistemic Recast of Arabian Late Antiquity

February 1, 2016 Read the full article →

Hugh Kennedy

Hugh Kennedy, Baghdad as a Center of Learning and Book Production

January 30, 2016 Read the full article →

Dana Sajdi

Dana Sajdi, Chained: Orality, Authority and History

January 29, 2016 Read the full article →

Ludvik Kalus

Ludvik Kalus, The Spread of Islamic Inscriptions in East and Southeast Asia

January 28, 2016 Read the full article →

Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares

Huda Smitshuijzen Abifares, Arabic Typography and the Shaping of a Modern Design Culture

January 27, 2016 Read the full article →

Jonathan Bloom

Jonathan Bloom, How Paper Changed Islamic Literary and Visual Culture

January 26, 2016 Read the full article →