CALLIGRAPHY BY MOHAMED ZAKARIYA
EXHIBITION IN DEPTH
Exhibition In Depth: "Living Line, Living Legacy" QAIC newest exhibition in partnership with the Reed Society for the Sacred Arts (RSSA) showcases the inherited legacy of the art of Islamic calligraphy and the creatives preserving the craft for future generations of calligraphers.
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fficially unveiled to the public on April 11, 2022, QAIC's new calligraphy exhibition in partnership with the Reed Society for the Sacred Arts (RSSA), “Living Line, Living Legacy,” features the works of renowned master calligrapher Mohamed Zakariya and other prominent calligraphers from the United States and Europe, many of whom were
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students of Zakariya before going on to master the art. According to Aisha Iman, Executive Director of the Reed Society for the Sacred Arts, this exhibition "brings to a new audience a chain of artistic transmission and accomplishment that has progressed through a number of schools and centers, always in action somewhere, from 7th-century Arabia to the present."
