S5E7 The Mamluks: A Louvre Exhibition, with C...

Join Umberto Bongianino as he walks us through one of the western Islamic world’s least appreciated artistic treasures: its calligraphy. For years, Maghribi calligraphy has been treated as amateurish, archaic, and unruly in contrast with the highly theorised conventions of Mashri ...  Show more

In the city of Varamin, some 50km southwest of Tehran, lies the Shrine and Mausoleum of Emamzadeh Yahya, a site of pilgrimage and veneration for Shi’i Muslims.During the nineteenth century, all of the shrine’s luster tiles, including its mihrab, were stolen and then dispersed to ...  Show more

In this episode of “On Show”, we explore the exhibition “Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire” with Fakhera Alkindi, Senior Curatorial Assistant at Louvre Abu Dhabi. The Mamluks were once enslaved soldiers who rose to power and ruled over a vast empire stretching from Egypt to Syria betw ...  Show more

I’m joined on the show today by Caroline Louca. Carol is an art consultant and started out as a corporate lawyer in Paris and Cairo. In 2008, she moved to the UAE and joined the Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority. In that role, she was intricately involved with the establish ...  Show more

This month Iszi speaks to Venetia Porter, curator of Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa, about the fascinating stories found within this new display of works on paper.

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A series of conversations with Al-Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and people who have been part of Qatar’s architecture & culture development journey. In this episode, Her Excellency is joined by Zeina Arida, the Director of MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, in Doha. Zei ...  Show more