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• November 24 2008
Major Conference Follows Museum Of Islamic Art Opening “Beyond Boundaries – Islamic Art Across Cultures” attracts delegates from 4 continents”
Doha, Qatar – November 24 & 25, 2008
Highlighting the importance of Qatar as an international center for culture and learning, Doha’s new Museum of Islamic Art has attracted distinguished art scholars from 4 continents to the museum’s first major art conference.
Organized by Qatar Museums Authority, Islamic Art Academics of the highest calibre academics, writers, researchers and historians from across the world will gather for the Beyond Boundaries Conference – Islamic Art Across Cultures.
The 2-day conference under the patronage of her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, takes place at the Museum of Islamic Art Auditorium on 24 and 25 November, and follows the museum’s official opening by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, two days earlier.
“We welcome all delegates to the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art and our first conference, Beyond Boundaries – Islamic Art Across Cultures,” says Abdullah Al Najjar, CEO of Qatar Museums Authority.
“The museum is destined to become a centre for learning, committed to showing how the arts of the Islamic world transcend boundaries, cultures, ethnicities, religions and continents.”
Beyond Boundaries accompanies the museum’s first public exhibition and brings together prominent museums from around the world for a symbolic event. Each museum is represented not only by a respected delegate but also by a single Islamic artefact.
“Conference artefacts are selected not for their size, value or rarity. Rather, they are chosen for the story they tell. Each artefact tells its own story about the Islamic world and sheds light on the possibility of peaceful co-existence.” added Al Najjar.
Noted speakers include:
Professor Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT);
Dr. Mohamed Hassan , Associate Professor of History, Qatar University; Professor Bernard O’Kane, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University, Cairo;
Professor Jeremy Johns , Director of the Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East;
Ernst J. Grube , Founder and Editor of the Journal Islamic Art, and President of the East-West Foundation in New York
Husband and wife team Professor Sheila Blair & Professor Jonathan Bloom , who share the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth. University, USA.
Dr. Yasser Tabbaa , Dean of Faculty and Deputy Head of Kings Academy in Madaba, Jordan;
Marcus Fraser , formerly head of Islamic and Indian Art at Sotheby’s, London;
Dr. Mustafa Aquil , Professor of History, Qatar University;
Dr. Eleanor Sims , PhD, independent Islamic art scholar and co-editor of the Journal of Islamic Art
Dr. Abdel Hussain Ali Ahmed , Professor of Philosophy, Qatar University.
Highlighting the importance of Qatar as an international center for culture and learning, Doha’s new Museum of Islamic Art has attracted distinguished art scholars from 4 continents to the museum’s first major art conference.
Organized by Qatar Museums Authority, Islamic Art Academics of the highest calibre academics, writers, researchers and historians from across the world will gather for the Beyond Boundaries Conference – Islamic Art Across Cultures.
The 2-day conference under the patronage of her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, takes place at the Museum of Islamic Art Auditorium on 24 and 25 November, and follows the museum’s official opening by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Emir of the State of Qatar, two days earlier.
“We welcome all delegates to the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art and our first conference, Beyond Boundaries – Islamic Art Across Cultures,” says Abdullah Al Najjar, CEO of Qatar Museums Authority.
“The museum is destined to become a centre for learning, committed to showing how the arts of the Islamic world transcend boundaries, cultures, ethnicities, religions and continents.”
Beyond Boundaries accompanies the museum’s first public exhibition and brings together prominent museums from around the world for a symbolic event. Each museum is represented not only by a respected delegate but also by a single Islamic artefact.
“Conference artefacts are selected not for their size, value or rarity. Rather, they are chosen for the story they tell. Each artefact tells its own story about the Islamic world and sheds light on the possibility of peaceful co-existence.” added Al Najjar.
Noted speakers include:
Professor Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT);
Dr. Mohamed Hassan , Associate Professor of History, Qatar University; Professor Bernard O’Kane, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the American University, Cairo;
Professor Jeremy Johns , Director of the Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East;
Ernst J. Grube , Founder and Editor of the Journal Islamic Art, and President of the East-West Foundation in New York
Husband and wife team Professor Sheila Blair & Professor Jonathan Bloom , who share the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth. University, USA.
Dr. Yasser Tabbaa , Dean of Faculty and Deputy Head of Kings Academy in Madaba, Jordan;
Marcus Fraser , formerly head of Islamic and Indian Art at Sotheby’s, London;
Dr. Mustafa Aquil , Professor of History, Qatar University;
Dr. Eleanor Sims , PhD, independent Islamic art scholar and co-editor of the Journal of Islamic Art
Dr. Abdel Hussain Ali Ahmed , Professor of Philosophy, Qatar University.
