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A free drawing symposium at the opening conference. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Iraqi activists establish new women’s rights group

by Jamal Al-Qassas | Jan 26, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Female activists in Baghdad have established Women for a Civil Iraq, an organization that aims to promote Iraqi civil culture, preserve human rights and freedom of expression, and promote the separation of religion from politics in the...

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Salam Atta Sabri shows off the exhibition hall filled with the works of Iraq’s modern artists. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Iraq’s salvaged modern art to go on public display

by Afrah Shawqi | Nov 29, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Iraqi Ministry of Culture is preparing for the inauguration of a new exhibition hall in Baghdad that will display a unique collection of Iraqi modern art after years of painstaking work to salvage what remains of the work of some of the...

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Chandelier from the al-Qarawiyyin mosque in Fez. (Louvre Museum)

Paris celebrates medieval and modern Morocco

by Michel Abu Najm | Oct 17, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat—Rarely is the art of an Arab country afforded the attention Moroccan works are now receiving in France. Two exhibitions have simultaneously been dedicated to Morocco: the first will be hosted by the Louvre, the second by the Institut du Monde...

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A general view of Algiers with the Kasbah in the background taken on June 5, 2014. AFP/Getty Images

Algerian artist Kader Attia tackles conflicted identities in his latest exhibition

by Sawsan Al-Abtah | Jul 18, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—A precondition for visiting the Contre Nature exhibition featuring work by Algerian artist Kader Attia is that you must don appropriate footwear. At the entrance of the exhibition held in the Beirut Art Center the artist has placed scrap metal,...

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An example of Shafiq Al-Zaman’s calligraphy at the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

A Calligrapher’s Journey from Karachi to Medina

by Abeer Mishkhas | Jul 10, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

London, Asharq Al-Awsat— Shafiq Al-Zaman has been chief calligrapher at the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina ever since winning a competition to renovate some of the inscriptions on the walls of Islam’s second-holiest site in 1991. For the last 23 years, the Pakistani...