In light of the UAE’s Golden Jubilee celebrations, the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation will be hosting a grand art exhibition under the title of “Al Owais Symposium on Arabic Calligraphy”. The event will take place at 7:30pm on Monday, September 19, 2022, and will be held at the Grand Exhibition Hall of the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation in Dubai.
This exceptional exhibition features calligraphers who represent various styles of Arabic calligraphy; where words are harmoniously manifested through careful arrangements of consonants and vowels and the creative use of color and ornamentation. Through the art of calligraphy, Arabic letters are brought to life and go beyond the frames of paintings that contain them to touch the hearts and feelings of the audience. Their fluidity and elegance are pleasing to esthetes and people of exquisite taste, as they bring together authenticity and modernity and infinitely combine the aesthetics of plastic art with the beauty of Arabic calligraphy.
The exhibition underlines the great attention given by the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation to authentic forms of art and is a manifestation of its ongoing efforts to introduce talents of similar expertise, approaches and visions through one colorful bouquet of art, in the aim of presenting to the world the brightest image of the UAE, its culture, civilization and the outstanding progress it has made since its establishment.
The new exhibition sees the participation of artists: Hakim Ghannam, Khalid Al Jallaf, Saleh Al Hajr, Taj Alsir Hassan, Narjis Noureldin, Ahmed Liwaa Rashdan, Ahram Jirjis Naema, Amal Al Gurg, Anas Fatouhi, Anwar Abdul Salam Al Halawani, Ayman Mohamed Saeed Ghazal, Jalal Ibrahim Al Muharib, Jamila Khalid Awad, Housam Ahmed Abdul Wahab, Housam Nazmi Khorshed, Hikmat Yasser Al Meneisi, Khalid Sulaiman Al Ghanim, Khalifa Ahmed Al Shimi, Mohamed Salah El Din Bilal, Zaki Al Hashemi, Zulfa Rasheed, Zaid Al A’thami, Sarah Abedi, Aesha Yusuf Al Marzouqi, Abdul Razzaq Al Mahmoud, Abdullah Al Hammadi, Uday Al A’raj, Oqail Ahmed, Ali Al Hammadi, Ali Mamdouh Abdul Halim, Umran Ali Al Beloushi, Fatima Al Housni, Fatima Salmeen Al Thaheri, Fatima Al Thanhani, Fatima Mohsin Moustafa, Fatima Mohamed Abdul Rahim, Mohamed Feras Abbou, Majid Al Yusuf, Mohamed Adeeb Ali, Mohamed Bin Yahya, Mohamed Al Ajati, Mohamed Qureshi, Tariq Abu Queik, Ammar Farahat, Fayiz Al Naqbi, Kamila Al Sheikh, Mohamed Ali Abu Al Majd, Mohamed Abu Obeid, Mohamed Mandi, Mohamed Al Nouri, Mahmoud Al Abbadi, Marwan Ahmed Al Hammadi, Marwa Munthir, Mu’ayad Al Sa’iy, Nada Al Mazmi, Nidhal Agha, Wisam Shawkat, Wafaa Omar, Yassir Al Ashri, Abdullah Mohamed Sa’eed Al Fadhli, Shaher Ahmed Al Tareef, Mohamed Nabati and Yusuf Yakou.
Moreover, a seminar on “Calligraphy in the UAE over Half a Century” will be held on the sidelines of the symposium; featuring a number of veteran artists who will talk about the journey of the art of calligraphy in the UAE. Furthermore, the Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Cultural Foundation will be releasing a special book about the symposium; featuring pictures of the showcased artworks along with information about the participating artists.
