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Powerless amidst Iraq ‘cultural cleansing’
Feb28

Powerless amidst Iraq ‘cultural cleansing’

UNESCO’s press conference in Paris 27 February 2015 after ISIL’s destruction of the Mosul Museum and other sites in Iraq was a sobering event, wherein Secretary General Irina Bokova outlined how international organisations such as UNESCO are powerless when faced with what she called ‘cultural cleansing’ in the embattled country. The story in neighbouring Syria is similar. UNESCO now wants the International...

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Jameel Prize 2013 goes to Turkish fashion designers
Dec10

Jameel Prize 2013 goes to Turkish fashion designers

The third biannual Jameel Prize has gone to Turkish fashion designer Dice Kayek, a label established in Paris in 1992 by sisters Ece and Ayse Ege. The GBP 25,000 Jameel Prize 3 went to the sisters, native of Bursa, for Istanbul Contrast, a collection of garments that evoke Istanbul’s architectural and artistic heritage. The judges felt that Dice Kayek’s work demonstrates how vibrant and creative Islamic traditions continue to be...

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The Jameel Prize 2009

Jameel Prize curator Tim Stanley, Senior Curator in the V&A’s Asian Department, offers the background to the Jameel Prize after its launch in 2009. By TIM STANLEY On 7 July 2009 the first Jameel Prize was awarded to the artist Afruz Amighi, who was born in Iran in 1974 but who has lived in New York since she was three. Amighi’s winning work, 1001 Pages, is a beautiful shadow piece, made by cutting a complex design into a...

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Catching up on Islamic art

Art museums are scrambling to attract more audiences for Islamic art, both historical materials and contemporary art from the wide expanse of the Middle East and North Africa region, Central Asia and the Caucasus, writes SAJID RIZVI. The aim ostensibly is to build up visitor numbers and public understanding of Islamic cultures and civilisations. Can this increased interest in Islamic art and culture substitute for a greater commitment...

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A Celebration of Iranian Culture at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg in June 2004
Jun23

A Celebration of Iranian Culture at the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg in June 2004

By ADEL T ADAMOVA As one of the world’s most celebrated museums the Hermitage houses more than three and a half million works of art. The Persian and Central Asian works of art in the Hermitage collections are truly unique. These collections cover both the Islamic as well as the pre-Islamic periods. The holdings include one of the most important collections in the world of silver objects from the Sasanian period, the only known...

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