I came across this great website: Expressions of Nakba ,which is an online gallery, an international competition and exhibition to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Nakba: the expulsion and dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948. The competition strives to present the extraordinary narrative of a dispossessed […]
Museum With No Frontier is an online museum of Islamic art offering a wide range of virtual exhibitions and art collections gathered from around the Islamic world, as well as countries that witnessed an Islamic influence.
You can also find books -available in different languages- about Islamic art and design, and even Islamic art e-cards. Such […]
So now you know that I’m addicted to Sophie Kinsella’s writings. You also know that I was able to buy only few of her books: “Shopaholic & Sister”, “Can You Keep a Secret?”, and “The Undomestic Goddess”. I was dying to get her other published books, especially the Shopaholic series.
Now I can proudly say that […]
أوّل ما شدّني لهذه الرواية كان اسم الكاتبة: عفاف البطاينة. لم أكن قد سمعت باسم هذه الكاتبة الأردنية سابقا. قرأت خلاصة القصة على الغلاف وقرّرت شراءها. لفت انتباهي أنّ الرواية غير متوفّرة في أي ركن أردني مشارك في معرض الكتاب وأنّها لاتباع إلاّ في هذا الركن اللبناني، وعندما دقّقت النظر لاحظت أنّ دارالنشر […]
منذ لحظات طويت آخر صفحة من صفحات رواية “عمارة يعقوبيان” للمبدع علاء الأسواني. هذه الرواية الثي لطالما سمعت عنها، الرواية التي لاقت نجاحا واسعا، و نالت إعجاب القراء و جذبت النقاد و أثارت اهتمام وكالات الأنباء. حتى أنها ألهمت صنّاع السينما ووقع الاختيار عليها لتتحول من سطور خطّت على ورق إلى فيلم بصوت وصورة.
بعد […]
People differ in their reading preferences, when it comes to me, no matter what language the book I’m reading is, the thing I really hate is using a rather complicated language structure. I really can’t stand a book that’s written in a sophisticated kind of way, to me, I believe this is either to show […]
President of Dubai Ladies Club, Sheikha Manal bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, launched the Young Artist Award: “New Signature”, an art contest targetting new and young local artists in the UAE.
The contest will be open for artists aged 18 years and older, who will submit some sample artworks, and a panel of local and […]
By our Jordanian friend: Naseem Tarawnah.
This woman I see
like my mother, like my sister
her hands are manifestations of modern tragedies
she grasps ink dry pens to record poetry
she breathes words into her dying lungs
this mother who is beautiful
this wife that is tragic
has a wing span that can stretch across an ocean
or at least wrap itself around […]
More than 15 Jordanian artists will join forces on Nov. 23 in a memorial exhibition entitled “Erasing the Black Day,” to showcase their rejection and condemnation of the recent terrorist attacks in the Kingdom.
“Erasing the Black Day is a gesture for our beloved country and shows the clear solidarity of Jordanian artists against terrorist attacks, […]
The great Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish arrived to Tunis yesterday and met the Minister of Education as well as the Palestinian Ambassador in Tunis. Mahmoud Darwish will be participating in the Carthage Festival by reading some of his amazing poems tonight. [Source:Assahafa (AR)].
I’ve always been a fan of Mahmoud Darwish, and I’ve always […]
