Roads to Iraq

Egyptian culture minister is an artist

American newspaper Houston Chronicle criticizes the exhibition of Egyptian Minister of Culture saying: If Hosny were a cab driver, I doubt the museums would thank him for his commitment to getting people to the airport on time as well as making paintings.

Sad day for Arabic calligraphers

Below are few Al-Zahawi works from my collection, click on the image to enlarge Again another coward attempt from the US-Zionists to wipe out our culture and heritage, master calligrapher Khalil Al-Zahawi was killed yesterday. It is said that anyone in Iraq who wanted to be considered proficient in Arabic calligraphy had to have his seal of approval. In his last interview on ...

Urgent: destroying Baghdad’s victory-arch

Information came right now from Baghdad not confirmed yet that the process of dismantling the swords and the arms of Victory-Arch in Basghdad celebration arena started today. The monument is one of the distinguish landmarks of Baghdad represents the Iraqi victory against Iran. The whole monument from top to bottom was made from Iranians military hardware leftovers in the 1980-1988 war. The ...

Street Art Film Festival

There are some excellent works there. These two are noteworthy: 1- Tyger by Guiherme Marcondes. 2- Embed by Mark Jenkins. But there are other works, visit the website: Street Art Film Festival

Was Khomeini a Sufi?

An anthology of poems is a book written by Imam Khomeini, recently translated into Arabic by Egyptian “oriental languages� Professor Mohammad Mansour Al-Amin published recently, Dr. Mansour wrote in the interdiction of the book that Khomeini’s poems reflect his mystical thoughts influenced by Sufism. That was a start of a very interesting debate, Iraq scholar Balkis Hassan, and daughter of ...

The Abode of Chaos

From the “Naked Lady With a Dead Pig� to the "Painted Elephant in the Living Room", all these "Modern Art" were seen as controversy. Strangely, “Abode of Chaos� didn’t draw the same international attention, except some local controversy, particularly from the village’s mayor, he finds such a work ugly and does not consider it art at all, so artists Thierry Ehrmann ...

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