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| Congratulations to Dubai as it is named host city for the World Expo 2020!
Just like the Shanghai World Expo 2010 and the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, the Middle East is now looking to be 'the place to be' with the Dubai World Expos 2020 and the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup!
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Showing posts with label arabian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arabian. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
☆☆ Mabrook Dubai World Expo 2020 ☆☆
Saturday, October 26, 2013
Saudi women defy driving ban across country
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| Saudi activists are calling the campaign the most successful in years, despite threats [AFP] |
Bravo to the dozens of women in Saudi Arabia who today took the wheel and defied the ban on women driving in that country. It's a sign of how backward Saudi Arabia is that 1400 years ago no one had a problem with the Prophet Muhammad's wife, Khadija, driving camels, but fundamentalist clerics today refuse to let women drive cars--which in my experience are rather easier to drive than camels. -Nicholas Kristof
No Woman, No Drive
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| Saudi women have only been recently granted the right to ride bicycles. “Women are now allowed to drive bicycles in Saudi. “Not Forbidden” reads caption on caricature by one of AUK's best former students @MohammadRSharaf |
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
GCC exhibit opening TONIGHT!
A Space for National Achievement
Sultan Gallery, Kuwait
October 1st – 31st 2013
Achievements are marked by and created through awards and ceremony. The combination of object and event creates a spectacle intended to impose specific impressions onto individuals, groups and even the nation as a whole. Within our region the individual stands in for their family, and subsequently the nation. Although we are often hailed as part of a cohesive whole, our individual actions-and as a consequence our achievements-become the defining factor of a broader social and political structure. A Space for National Achievement calls into question the accumulation of superlatives, and asks us to contend with the disconnect between a lavish award and the achievement it recognizes. This relationship becomes a way to manage image and control perception. In our societies awards merely reinforce what already exists, rather than mark material gains. This symbolic power is actualized in this exhibition, which asks us to consider how national achievement is situated. In fact, these discourses are part of a systematic framework that organizes our existence.
About GCC:
The basic objectives of the GCC are to effect collaboration, transformation and inter-connection between Artists in all fields in order to achieve unity between them: Being fully aware of the ties of special relations, common characteristics and similar systems founded on the creed of Art which bind them; and in conformity with the Charter of the Federation of Gulf Artists which calls for the realization of closer relations and stronger bonds; and having the conviction that coordination, cooperation, and integration between them serve the sublime objectives of the GCC; and,
In order to channel their efforts to reinforce and serve Gulf and Artistic causes.
www.gccdomain.com
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
Continuum 2013
My artwork included in the exhibit:
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| Notes from Arabia: The Arab Delegation, 2011 |
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Notes from Arabia: True Faith, 2011Continuum 2013: In Retrospect Denis Sargent
A retrospective exhibition of work by Denis Sargent
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013
still hot (and humid) in Kuwait!
They say it is not that bad since it is a "dry" heat, but the last few days have also been severely humid!
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