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A Week in Art & Culture
(23/03/2006 -
30/03/2006)
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By The IOL Art & Culture Team
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Apr.
2, 2006
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Birds, a photo taken in Iraq
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After
the Wisdom Moment, Time to Tape Over the Cracks
30/03/2006
The
17th-century Qing dynasty vases had rested blamelessly on a staircase window
sill for about 50 years until Nick Flynn had his now infamous "Norman
Wisdom moment" - tripping on his shoelace, he fell into the vases and
sprayed about 400 shards of porcelain over 30 steps before looking up to see
snaps being taken on a mobile phone…
Source:
The Guardian
MoMA
Keeps the Walls Clean;
Islamic Show Sans Politics
04/03/2006
Without
Boundary is the most important exhibit MoMA has launched in at least a decade,
and it’s the first exhibition of contemporary art from the Islamic world in a
major American museum since 9/11. The show features 14 artists from Islamic
countries, an Indian born to Muslim parents, and two Americans…
Source:
New York Observer
Naipaul
Attacks Literary Giants
28/03/2006
Naipaul
said Thomas Hardy was "an unbearable writer" who "doesn't know
how to compose a paragraph". And Ernest Hemingway "was so busy being
an American" he "didn't know where he was", he told the Literary
Review...
Source:
BBC News
Islamic
Art Fair Opens in Louvre
28/03/2006
Under
the title "From Cordoba to Samarkand," an exhibition on Islamic art
was inaugurated Monday, March 27, in the Louvre Museum by Qatar's Emir Sheikh
Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani and French President Jacques Chirac…
Source:
IslamOnline
'Da
Vinci Code' Fuels Religious Publishing Boom
28/03/2006
A
wave of religious books is coming to bookstores to cash in on "The Da Vinci
Code" movie in May, including a book saying Jesus survived crucifixion and
an Evangelical novel with a modern-day Mary Magdalene heroine…
Source:
Reuters
Lift
Music is Not Elevating
28/03/2006
One
might be forgiven for thinking that there is much to detest in contemporary
Britain - violent crime, burgeoning volumes of traffic and pollution, poor
public transport, fast-food chains. Yet in a recent Mori poll, 17% of people
surveyed said that "the thing they most detest about daily modern
life" is the use of muzak…
Source:
The Guardian
Don't
Mix Christianity With US-led Wars: Vatican
26/03/2006
The
United States-led wars on Iraq and Afghanistan should not be viewed as crusades
launched by Christian countries against Muslims, and "Western" is not
synonymous to "Christian,"…
Source:
IslamOnline
Prince
Charles Urges Flexible Interpretation of Sacred Texts
26/03/2006
British
Crown Prince Charles called for a flexible interpretation of sacred texts and
mutual respect between religions. "We need to recover the depth, the
subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked
Islam in its great ages,"…
Source:
IslamOnline
For
New Generations, Hijab Is Beautiful
24/03/2006
The
headscarf is the battleground for legal, political and cultural conflicts
worldwide. In Beirut, however, as Firas Zbib writes in his personal account,
some women are wearing it lightly, not feeling the ideological ballast of the
hijab at all…
Source:
Qantara
The
Arab World Has a Hard Time with Translations
23/03/2006
Efforts
were made early on to translate works from European languages, especially in
Egypt, but to this day it has proved impossible to coordinate these initiatives
and implement them systematically…
Source:
Qantara
Soldier’s
Imagery from Iraq Dominates All-Army Photo Contest
17/03/2006
Sgt.
Nicholas Sendelbach mail ordered a digital single-lens-reflex camera from New
York to the Middle East and all but swapped munitions for lenses to document his
Army unit’s humanitarian missions. “I would either shoot with my machine gun
or my camera, whichever was useful at the time,” he said…
Source:
US Army MWR
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