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Comment by omid on February 23, 2010 at 10:08am

islamic architecture: advanced mathematic

Comment by oz on March 13, 2009 at 5:35am

Brothers Kept Apart"

Christians and Muslims
needlessly kept apart
for the past 1,300 years

New comprehensive study reveals harmony between the essential teachings of the Bible and the Qur’an, without compromising the teachings or damaging the integrity of any verse in either book.

Comment by oz on March 10, 2009 at 10:40am

Emily Jacir is both an expert on Islamic Art and Architecture

her Who's Who ..I'm hoping she will honor my invitation to join the site ?


Emily Jacir (املي جاسر) is a Palestinian artist, born in Bethlehem.[1].

Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia and then attended high school in Italy. She went on to earn her undergraduate degree from the University of Dallas and her MFA from the Memphis College of Art. Currently, she divides her time between New York and Ramallah.

Jacir works in a variety of media including film, photography, installation, performance, video, writing and sound. She has exhibited extensively throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East since 1994, holding solo exhibitions in places including New York, Los Angeles, Ramallah, Beirut, London and Linz.

She has been active in building Ramallah's art scene since 1999 and has been involved in various organizations including the Qattan Foundation, al-Ma'mal Foundation and the Sakakini Cultural Center. She has been involved in creating numerous projects and events such as Birzeit's Virtual Art Gallery. She also founded and curated the first International Video Festival in Ramallah in 2002. [2] She is currently a full-time instructor at the International Academy of Art in Ramallah.

On 17 October 2007 she won the 'Leone d'Oro a un artista under 40' - (Golden Lion for artists under 40) - at the 52nd Venice Biennale for "a practice that takes as its subject exile in general and the Palestinian issue in particular. Without recourse to exoticism, the work on display in the central Pavilion at the Giardini establishes and expands a crossover between cinema, archival documentation, narrative and sound" . She is also a recipient of the prestigious Prince Claus Award, an annual prize from the Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development, headquartered in The Hague. She is the winner of the 2008 Hugo Boss Prize by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for two installations memorializing Palestinian intellectual Wael Zwaiter, who was assassinated by Israeli Mossad intelligence agents in Italy in 1973.

Contents [hide]
1 Museums
2 Biennales
3 See Also
4 Articles (partial list)
5 External links



[edit] Museums
Museums where her work has been shown:

Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena, Italy, nella mostra 'System Error: war is a force that gives us meanings'
Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah[3]
Modern Art Oxford
Museum of Modern Art in New York
Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco
Whitney Museum of American Art
CCS Hessel Museum of Contemporary Art at Bard College
The Main Gallery in the US that shows her work is Alexander and Bonin in NYC (212.367.7474)