Art of the Middle East

Adam Bykowski stumbled across one of my photos and decided to include my portfolio in one of his journal entries of Adam’s Photographer of the Day / I’m rather chuffed by that and would …

Here tis The last in the Tehran series appearing on Gourmantic. / In a couple of weeks we’ll be doing a series on Shiraz which will be fun…I think

Part 4 in the series is out like…..yesterday and I was slow coz I was sick but you can get all the goodness here

part 3 in the series is now up on Gourmantic, check it out HERE

in case you were wondering where Part 2 in the series has got to, it’s HERE

The uber website Gourmantic has put up the first of a five part story of our visit to Tehran, Iran. You can read all about it HERE

Honored to have been interviewed by Photography Office , a snapshot of my current thoughts. I wonder how this will change over time, and what a similar interview will look like in 5 or 10 years time …

combination of traditional,abstract and contemporary art / Throughout the Islamic history,calligraphy remained the most honoured of the fine arts,but it is not taught in any of goverement colleges of…

First. we didn’t decide to be born as how we are. (those who wish to argue on this point, coming up with some theological / mystical concept, saying that ‘no, according to X tradition or …

For any religious / spiritual tradition of any time in human history, the departure for the journey of self-realization, for our quest to arrive at Truth, the process of liberation, Nirvana or Moksha…

The Messenger of Allah said, ‘By Allah, it is not poverty that I fear upon you, but I fear that the world (materialistic things) will be spread before you as it was spread before the nations th…

With wide ranging clampdowns on the freedoms of Street Photographers throughout many parts of the world, this article was written upon request from the STREET PHOTOGRAPHY AND PHOTOJOURNALISM GROUP to…

Last year I held a solo exhibition at The Culture & Art House / Thomas Schmitz, the Organiser, has recently scheduled the exhibitions for 2010, but unexpectedly one participant has had to decline…

O you who believe! squander not your wealth among yourselves in vanity,exept it be trade by mutual consent,and kill not one another.Surely Allah is ever merciful to you. / And eat not up your propert…

Page view / I wish to bring this matter to the attention of all members who reside and/or are registered in the Middle East, Asia, South Pacific (Fiji), South America and the Caribbean. / Earlier thi…

There are times when I get so absolutely blown away by someone’s work here on RB that I can’t even contain myself…I want to add ALL of their work to my favourites (1000 over)……

I know I haven’t given much away about myself in my profile but if anyone would like to know more, Eyal Nahmias from the Art of the Middle East group managed to extract some info in an intervie…

Me and My Stage Set / 8×2 meters Tempera Paint on Styrofoam Boards / Click Here to see stage / This is where I was one month ago… happy, at work teaching art and preparing one of the thre…